Fish & Richardson Named a Top Trademark Law Firm by World Trademark Review

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Apr 25, 2011) - Fish & Richardson has been named a top trademark law firm by World Trademark Review(WTR) 1000, a guide to the world's leading trademark practitioners and firms. According to WTR, Fish is as "an obvious choice for trademarks, with a number of excellent practitioners" and the firm "tops the market in Massachusetts and also boasts a strong presence in California and Texas."

Specific Fish attorneys included in the rankings include: Cynthia Johnson Walden, Trademark and Copyright Practice Group Leader/principal in Boston; Timothy French, managing principal of the Boston office; Lisa Greenwald-Swire, principal in Silicon Valley; Victor Johnson, principal in Dallas; Lisa Martens, principal in Southern California; and Russell Rippamonti, principal in Dallas.

The WTR 1000 is the only standalone ranking publication to focus exclusively on trademark practices and practitioners. The research covers more than 50 key jurisdictions and identifies the leading practitioners and their firms in both contentious and non-contentious work.

With 10 offices in the U.S. and one in Germany, Fish's trademark attorneys provide a full range of trademark advice and representation, including trademark counseling, prosecution, clearance work, complex litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.

In January 2010, Managing Intellectual Property named In re Bose, which Fish handled on behalf of Bose Corporation, as one of the top 10 most important IP cases of 2009, and gave the firm the U.S. Trademark Case of the Year award in 2010. In re Bose was a landmark decision in which the Federal Circuit overturned the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (TTAB) controversial Medinol decision and reversed a TTAB order canceling the registration of the famous Bose WAVE trademark, setting a new standard for proving fraud.

About Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson is a leading global law firm with more than 350 attorneys and technology specialists practicing intellectual property strategy and counseling, intellectual property litigation, and business litigation. Fish does cutting-edge legal work for innovative clients who value their intellectual property. For over 130 years, Fish has been serving great innovators, helping protect countless ideas, nurturing discoveries, and facilitating the entry of new concepts to market. The firm has been ranked the number one patent litigation firm in the country for seven straight years (Corporate Counsel, 2003-2010), a top IP firm for America's biggest companies (Corporate Counsel, September 2010), and an elite Tier 1 IP litigation, patent prosecution, ITC, and Life Sciences firm (Managing Intellectual Property, February 2011). Fish was honored as an IP Firm of the Year (Law360, January 2010), named a finalist for top IP Litigation Department of the Year (American Lawyer, January 2010), and was named the number one firm in the U.S. for PCT filings (Managing Intellectual Property, October 2010). The firm also handled two of the top ten most important IP cases of 2009 (Managing Intellectual Property, January 2010). For more information, visit http://www.fr.com.