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[davidslee_98]

Does anyone know who the most nationally renowned and best patent litigation law firms money can buy might be?

TIA

[bleedingpen]

IMO, Fish and Richardson has the best rep. 

But there are many many many competent law firms out there, and some are going to charge you a lot less to reach the likely same result. 

[Wiscagent]

I've worked with Sidley Austin in Chicago.  It seems to be a top quality, high cost firm for patent litigation.

[davidslee_98]

Thanks for your replies! 

[lwhitney]

Try Jones Day - top 4 in US for patent litigation.  I'm familiar with Lester Savit head of their intellectual property practice in Irvine.

[justin_yu]

Perhaps you need to tell us where the litigation happens.
So, we can give you some more useful advices.

[tarekul09]

The Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property Center of Excellence - Waseda Institute for Corporation Law and Society (RCLIP) is, despite its university base and academic credentials, a practice-focused institution which focuses on many of the most sensitive and important issues in IP today, one of which is patent litigation.

The fifth issue of RCLIP's quarterly newsletter (published in Japanese/English) contains a report on last May's RCLIP International IP Seminar on "Japanese Corporations and Patent Litigations: Offensive Patent Strategies by Forum Shopping”. The first forum-shopping under review, by John Livingstone (Finnegan Henderson, Tokyo Office), was that which takes place within the United States, where the plaintiff can litigate before the Federal District Courts, the US PTO, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Court of Federal Claims -- from all of which an appeal may be made to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From the report it appears that, in District Courts, the patentee win rate is high, though fewer than 4% of disputes ever get to trial, the rest being resolved out of court settlement. The ITC, despite the limited range of actions it may hear, offers a patentee win rate of around 50% and a result within the year.

Richard Price (Taylor Wessing, London) then spoke on forum-shopping in England and Germany. He explained that in Germany the most popular locations for patent infringement are the courts in Düsseldorf, Munich and Mannheim, of which Düsseldorf is statistically the least patentee-friendly. The positions in China (Xiaoguang Cui, Sanyou Law Firm, Beijing) and Japan (Professor Toshiko Takenaka, CASRIP) were also reviewed.

PatLit is always pleased to read of events such as these, but hopes that RCLIP will be able in the future to make available the texts of the speakers' presentations, and/or a podcasts of their talks and the question-and-answer session so that a wider audience can study and benefit from the hard work of the speakers.