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Fitch Even Recognized as a Top Firm in PTAB Practice

September 18, 2023

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Fitch Even was recently recognized as being among the top 20 best-performing law firms representing patent owners and among the top 50 best-performing law firms overall in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings in Patexia’s 2023 PTAB Intelligence Report.

Fitch Even was also ranked among the top 100 most-active law firms representing patent owners. In addition, Fitch Even partner Paul B. Henkelmann was ranked among the top 200 best-performing attorneys representing patent owners in PTAB proceedings, and partner Timothy P. Maloney was ranked among the top 250 most-active attorneys representing patent owners.

This year, Patexia expanded their IPR Intelligence Report into a new PTAB Intelligence Report that covers all proceedings within the PTAB, including Inter Partes Review (IPR), Post-Grant Review (PGR), Covered Business Method (CBM), and Derivation (DER). Using data from over 7,000 PTAB proceedings filed from July 2018 through June 2023, Patexia evaluated the performance of more than 900 law firms and over 6,000 attorneys.

View the annual report and its methodology.

Fitch Even has represented both patent owners and petitioners in a wide variety of industries in over 140 AIA trial proceedings to date. The continuing recognition of our extensive experience and strong track record on behalf of our clients reflects the contributions of the firm’s entire PTAB Trial Practice group and validates our approach of leveraging the skills of both patent litigators and patent prosecution attorneys.