Fenwick & West

Fenwick & West’s IP practice in California offers capabilities in both contentious and non-contentious IP matters. This year the firm earned highly recommended rankings in copyright, patent prosecution, and trademark litigation and prosecution. Fenwick & West is also recommended for patent litigation.

Key patent practitioners include Daniel Becker, Robert Hulse, John McNelis and Rajiv Patel.

In the trademark group, key practitioners include Sally Abel, Andrew Bridges, Jedediah Wakefield and Karen Webb. Sally Abel was also recognized in the Top 250 Women in IP list.

Fenwick & West is also viewed a leading firm in the IP transactions area, a practice supported by notable attorneys Jake Handy and David Hayes.

In 2021, the firm was named Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year in the West and US Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year. Other shortlisted categories include US Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year and Copyright Firm of the Year, as well as three regional nominations in the West.

In copyright, litigators from the firm acted for General Motors against the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies in a high-profile dispute.

Additional copyright clients include Cloudflare, Scopely and Riot Games.

The firm represents Supercell Oy in defense of 11 separate patent infringement lawsuits brought in the Eastern District of Texas, in which a total of 30 different video game patents are asserted by GREE.

Fenwick also represented Cray, a leader in supercomputing, in two lawsuits brought in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas by defense contractor Raytheon.

Facebook is one of the firm’s longstanding clients, for which the patent group continues to handle prosecution and strategy, as well as its many subsidiaries.

Recently, Fenwick defended Peloton, the home fitness company that provides indoor exercise bikes and streamed workout classes, in a trademark infringement action in US District Court for the Central District of California.

Additional trademark clients include Delphix and Tanium.