Fish & Richardson

Infobox Law Firm
firm_name = Fish & Richardson
firm_
headquarters = Decentralized
num_offices = 11
num_attorneys = 450+
practice_areas = General practice, especially intellectual property
key_people = Peter Devlin (President)
date_founded = 1878
company_type = Professional Corporation
homepage = [http://www.fr.com/ www.fr.com]

Fish & Richardson is a global firm practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law. Fish is one of the largest in the world practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law, and has as a legal staff of more than 450 attorneys and 1,200 employees in 11 offices across the United States, including an office in Munich, Germany. The firm serves more than 2,000 clients including solo inventors, hospitals, universities, non-profit organizations, start-up companies, and multinational corporations. Fish also has a broad complex litigation practice that includes a wide range of high-stakes, high-tech business litigation. Its regulatory group advises clients seeking to market products subject to FCC and FDA regulation, and the Corporate and Securities Section helps clients with a wide range of corporate transactions.

History

Founded in Boston in 1878 by Frederick P. Fish, one of the most well-known and highly respected patent attorneys in history, the firm has represented some of the greatest inventors of all time – Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers. The firm prosecuted many of the fundamental patents of industrial America including the telephone, the air-brake system, the steam turbine, the automobile, and the radio.

Beginning in the 1980s, Fish began expansion into the practice areas of corporate law, regulatory law, securities law, and general litigation, emerging as a general practice firm. Nevertheless, intellectual property remains an important practice area of the firm, and has ranked number one for six out of seven years by "IP Law & Business" as the top patent infringement litigation firm in the country.

Recognition

*Honored by "Managing Intellectual Property" in 2008 as one of the leading law firms in the United States. Fish was named the top U.S. law firm for life sciences/biotech work.

*Named in the 2008 "The Appellate Hot List" by "The National Law Journal".

*Represents 11 of the top 25 World’s Most Innovative Companies, as identified in a Spring 2007 "Business Week" survey.

*Named Top IP law firm in the country in 2007 "Corporate Counsel Magazine".

*Ranked as the number one patent litigation firm in the country for the past six years by "IP Law & Business".

Offices

* Atlanta
* Austin
* Boston
* Dallas
* Delaware
* Munich
* New York
* San Diego
* Silicon Valley
* Twin Cities
* Washington, DC

References

External links

* [http://www.fr.com Fish & Richardson web site]