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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:36 pm
What are some of the most selective pat lit groups around?
Keker.Anonymous User wrote:What are some of the most selective pat lit groups around?
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Keker.Anonymous User wrote:What are some of the most selective pat lit groups around?
I'm assuming you mean Durie? Keker lost almost all its star pat lit partners some years back when they went off to form their own firm.rayiner wrote:Keker.Anonymous User wrote:What are some of the most selective pat lit groups around?
Note the OP's question was about which patent groups are the most selective, not which are the best. KVN is selective as hell and still has a substantial patent group.Anonymous User wrote:I'm assuming you mean Durie? Keker lost almost all its star pat lit partners some years back when they went off to form their own firm.rayiner wrote:Keker.Anonymous User wrote:What are some of the most selective pat lit groups around?
KVN loves clerks. I don't know that they are very grade snobby.rayiner wrote: Note the OP's question was about which patent groups are the most selective, not which are the best. KVN is selective as hell and still has a substantial patent group.
But judges are grade snobby.Anonymous User wrote:KVN loves clerks. I don't know that they are very grade snobby.rayiner wrote: Note the OP's question was about which patent groups are the most selective, not which are the best. KVN is selective as hell and still has a substantial patent group.
Make sure you have a hospitality suite and bring a couple of associates.fatduck wrote:just start your own firm, do OCI at every T14 school, and never hire anyone. then you will be TRULY ELITE.
I wouldn't call their patent lit group "elite." Their emerging tech/startup corporate work is certainly elite, but their patent lit group handles earlier stage companies in smaller lawsuits. When those companies get big, they go elsewhere for their patent lit. Litigation at Fenwick tends to play second fiddle to the corporate work.Anonymous User wrote:Fenwick & West is also very elite. Great clients, great culture, great pay.
In the context of what Winston did this summer, that in the no-offer bloodbath of class of 2010, Fenwick gave far more SAs than it had slots. It told the SAs this was at least giving them an opportunity that was better than nothing at all -- but Fenwick said this after a number of students who had other opportunities they could have taken instead. And, Fenwick had one of the worst no-offer rates of any SV firm that summer, even though a lot of other firms like Cooley and WSGR were having similar financial issues. But I guess all is forgiven now.Anonymous User wrote:I wouldn't call their patent lit group "elite." Their emerging tech/startup corporate work is certainly elite, but their patent lit group handles earlier stage companies in smaller lawsuits. When those companies get big, they go elsewhere for their patent lit. Litigation at Fenwick tends to play second fiddle to the corporate work.Anonymous User wrote:Fenwick & West is also very elite. Great clients, great culture, great pay.
I will agree with you on great culture and great (straight up market) pay. Great clients depends on your perspective and what you're looking for. F&W's clients are very different than Weil SV's patent lit clients, for example.
Fenwick handles the patent work for Cisco. I wouldn't call Cisco an emerging tech/start-up. Fenwick has the most momentum of all SV firms in the tech space and is punching in far above its weight. Go to another firm if you want to play it safe. Go to Fenwick if you want to get in on the ground floor of the next "Wilson Sonsini" of the Valley.Anonymous User wrote:I wouldn't call their patent lit group "elite." Their emerging tech/startup corporate work is certainly elite, but their patent lit group handles earlier stage companies in smaller lawsuits. When those companies get big, they go elsewhere for their patent lit. Litigation at Fenwick tends to play second fiddle to the corporate work.Anonymous User wrote:Fenwick & West is also very elite. Great clients, great culture, great pay.
I will agree with you on great culture and great (straight up market) pay. Great clients depends on your perspective and what you're looking for. F&W's clients are very different than Weil SV's patent lit clients, for example.
They handle Cisco's deal work, not patent lit as far as I can see (Google shows this).Anonymous User wrote:Fenwick handles the patent work for Cisco. I wouldn't call Cisco an emerging tech/start-up. Fenwick has the most momentum of all SV firms in the tech space and is punching in far above its weight. Go to another firm if you want to play it safe. Go to Fenwick if you want to get in on the ground floor of the next "Wilson Sonsini" of the Valley.
Yeah, it can't be said that Fenwick exclusively handles Cisco patent work. See http://news.priorsmart.com/cisco-systems-v-tivo-l6bJ/.bk187 wrote:To answer OP's question, check Chambers for what is "elite." As for what is selective, I guess Quinn/Irell are selective (not nearly as selective as Keker obviously). I'm sure there are others with varying degrees of selectivity.
They handle Cisco's deal work (Google shows this).Anonymous User wrote:Fenwick handles the patent work for Cisco. I wouldn't call Cisco an emerging tech/start-up. Fenwick has the most momentum of all SV firms in the tech space and is punching in far above its weight. Go to another firm if you want to play it safe. Go to Fenwick if you want to get in on the ground floor of the next "Wilson Sonsini" of the Valley.
Can confirm that they are very grade snobby.Anonymous User wrote:KVN loves clerks. I don't know that they are very grade snobby.rayiner wrote: Note the OP's question was about which patent groups are the most selective, not which are the best. KVN is selective as hell and still has a substantial patent group.