We performed an analysis on the US patent litigation data. In this installment, we bring the top patent law firms in the USA that were the preferred choices of defenders and petitioners for patent litigation suits in 2020. You can also check the most popular patent litigation venues in 2020 here: Western District of Texas is the new hot spot for NPE patent litigation suits
Top Law Firms in the US that Defended Most Patent Litigation
| Top Defendant Law Firms |
| Fish & Richardson |
| Shelton Coburn |
| Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell |
| Dla Piper |
| Baker Botts |
| Winston & Strawn |
| Gillam & Smith |
| Morgan Lewis & Bockius |
| Foley & Lardner |
| Perkins Coie |
| Richards Layton & Finger |
| Potter Anderson & Corroon |
| Barnes & Thornburg |
| Greenberg Traurig |
| Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman |
| Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor |
| Sidley Austin Llp |
| Duane Morris |
| Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
Top law firms that represented most plaintiffs in patent litigation
| Top Plaintiff Law Firms |
| Rabicoff Law |
| Devlin Law Firm |
| Etheridge Law Group |
| Chong Law Firm |
| Direction Ip Law |
| The Mort Law Firm |
| Sand Sebolt & Wernow |
| Kizzia Johnson |
| Russ August & Kabat |
| Gawthrop Greenwood | Rabicoff Law |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
| Greer Burns & Crain |
| Sml Avvocati Pc |
| Williams Simons & Landis |
| Fish & Richardson |
| Kent & Risley |
Only 2 law firms viz-a-viz Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Fish & Richardson appeared in the list of top choices for both defendants and plaintiffs. But which defendant firms closed the most number of patent litigation suits in 2020? Let’s find out.
Top law firms that got most of the patent suits terminated
| Top Defendant Law Firms which got most of the cases filed against them terminated. | Number of cases they got terminated |
| Fish & Richardson | 52 |
| Shelton Coburn | 14 |
| Futurewei Technologies Inc | 12 |
| Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig | 11 |
| Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath | 7 |
| Winston & Strawn | 6 |
| Baker Botts | 6 |
| Foley & Lardner | 6 |
| Dla Piper | 6 |
| Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | 3 |
| K&L Gates | 4 |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | 4 |
| Potter Anderson & Corroon | 4 |
| Cochran & Edwards | 4 |
| Perkins Coie | 4 |
Fish & Richardson is leading the table based on district court litigation data of 2020. Now let’s see which patents were involved in the most number of litigation.
Most Litigated Patents of 2020 in the USA
| Patents involved in most number of litigation | Count |
| D842536 | D858868 | D858869 | D858870 | 49 |
| US8424752B2 | 47 |
| US7835421B1 | 27 |
| US8856221B2 | 25 |
| US6289434B1 | 21 |
| US6574239B1 | US8266296B2 | US8291010B2 | 20 |
| US6321095B1 | 19 |
| US9965780B2 | 19 |
| US6409599B1 | 18 |
| US9300723B2 | 18 |
| US7917285B2 | 17 |
| D866941 | 17 |
| US6917304B1 | 16 |
| US6983139B2 | US7058395B2 | US7212811B2 | US7292844B2 | 16 |
Interestingly, Design patent campaigns by Juul Labs and Deckers Outdoor Corporation were one of the prominent sightings amongst the heavily litigated utility patent campaigns by the likes of Symbology Innovations, Castlemorton Wireless and WSOU Investments.