Brooks Kushman Ranked in Top 2015 PTAB Firms by Docket Navigator

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Brooks Kushman has been named one of the top Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) law firms in a 2015 annual report published by Docket Navigator. The list includes top law firms and corporate legal departments ranked by the number of inter partes review, covered business methods, and post grant review proceedings in 2015 in which the organization represented one of the litigants. In 2015 there were 1,797 new patent litigation proceedings in the PTAB, a 7% increase over 2014.

Docket Navigator provides a set of powerful research and reporting tools for high stakes litigation including an alert service with automatic updates for patent litigation decisions using a proprietary database developed and maintained by seasoned patent litigators. Their Docket Report extracts data from government sources such as Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office databases, and Electronic Data Information Source (EDIS). Editors manually clean, normalize and correct data followed by a refined review of experienced US patent litigators and agents who code, classify and summarize the data by hand.

In addition to the firm’s ranking, Brooks Kushman Shareholder Frank Angileri was ranked one of the top PTAB attorneys as measured by number of inter partes review, covered business methods, and post grant review proceedings in 2015 in which the attorney represented one of the litigants.

The full Docket Navigator report can be accessed here.

For more information on post-grant proceedings, visit www.bkpostgrant.com.

About Brooks Kushman P.C.
Brooks Kushman P.C. is a leading intellectual property (IP) and technology law firm with offices across the nation, and represents clients nationally and internationally with respect to protection, enforcement and monetization of IP, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. The firm has more than 90 intellectual property professionals specializing in various technical disciplines, and has a reputation for providing leading IP counseling with a focus on the business objectives of their clients.

Brooks Kushman counts a number of Fortune 100 companies across a variety of industries among its clients. The firm is also recognized by leading legal publications and rankings, including Corporate Counsel magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Law360, Intellectual Asset Management, Managing Intellectual Property, World Trademark Review, and Intellectual Property Today.  For more information, please visit www.BrooksKushman.com.

For more information on post-grant proceedings, visit www.bkpostgrant.com.