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Feb. 24, 2003
Think Big
With just about every lawyer these days touting his premier copyright, trademark and
patent practice, who really stands heads above the rest in intellectual property law? We
offer a brain trust of 25 lawyers who comprise the state’s best and brightest in the white-
hot specialty.
By Robin Davidson
Think Big
With just about every lawyer these days touting his premier copyright, trademark and
patent practice, who really stands heads above the rest in intellectual property law? We
offer a brain trust of 25 lawyers who comprise the state’s best and brightest in the white-
hot specialty.
By Robin Davidson
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Ronald Laurie
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom (Palo Alto)
At 60, Laurie has succeeded at a little bit of everything in intellectual property. His legal
career began with patent prosecution in 1968 and then wound its way through the
courtroom for the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments a decade later. In the
late 1980s, he ventured into a new area, cultivation a niche in the undeveloped
transactional world of intellectual property. In doing so, he’s developed a top mergers
and acquisitions practice for companies in the computer and communications
industries. He was Compaq’s top IP lawyer in its merger with Hewlett-Packard in 2001.
Other high-tech clients who call on him for M&A work include Alta Vista Company,
Applied Matrerials and Yahoo! Inc.
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom (Palo Alto)
At 60, Laurie has succeeded at a little bit of everything in intellectual property. His legal
career began with patent prosecution in 1968 and then wound its way through the
courtroom for the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments a decade later. In the
late 1980s, he ventured into a new area, cultivation a niche in the undeveloped
transactional world of intellectual property. In doing so, he’s developed a top mergers
and acquisitions practice for companies in the computer and communications
industries. He was Compaq’s top IP lawyer in its merger with Hewlett-Packard in 2001.
Other high-tech clients who call on him for M&A work include Alta Vista Company,
Applied Matrerials and Yahoo! Inc.
It’s not enough to say you’re an intellectual property lawyer these days. Everyone else
says the same thing.
The first-year associate down the hall who made photocopies at Kinko’s for that big
client pitch probably lists copyright as an area of expertise on his resume.
The number of attorneys angling for a piece of the intellectual property action is vast
enough to create more than a few hurdles for Daily Journal EXTRA in our search for
California’s top lawyers in the field.
Not ones to make the process any easier on ourselves, we cast a broad net. Instead of
focusing on parent litigators or tossing aside law school professors or in-house
counsel, we left the scope of intellectual property practice wide open. The only
requirement was that the attorneys reside in California.
We took submissions from law firms, dissecting each candidate to verify clients and
cases. We called experts in the field to solicit their opinions on who the best really are,
and we spent hours doing our own research into the biggest names, cases and
companies with IP hooks.
When all was said and done, we found we had quite an assortment of lawyers – from
lifelong intellectual property practitioners to career trial lawyers with a relatively recent
penchant for IP cases. Below we offer the 25 Lawyers, listed in alphabetical order, who
made our cut as California’s top intellectual Property lawyers.
says the same thing.
The first-year associate down the hall who made photocopies at Kinko’s for that big
client pitch probably lists copyright as an area of expertise on his resume.
The number of attorneys angling for a piece of the intellectual property action is vast
enough to create more than a few hurdles for Daily Journal EXTRA in our search for
California’s top lawyers in the field.
Not ones to make the process any easier on ourselves, we cast a broad net. Instead of
focusing on parent litigators or tossing aside law school professors or in-house
counsel, we left the scope of intellectual property practice wide open. The only
requirement was that the attorneys reside in California.
We took submissions from law firms, dissecting each candidate to verify clients and
cases. We called experts in the field to solicit their opinions on who the best really are,
and we spent hours doing our own research into the biggest names, cases and
companies with IP hooks.
When all was said and done, we found we had quite an assortment of lawyers – from
lifelong intellectual property practitioners to career trial lawyers with a relatively recent
penchant for IP cases. Below we offer the 25 Lawyers, listed in alphabetical order, who
made our cut as California’s top intellectual Property lawyers.