Patent Litigation and Trials

We work with clients to help align litigation strategy with business goals, which might mean settling on reasonable terms as early as possible, or alternatively, sending a message to industry competitors through aggressive enforcement or defensive strategies. In our experience, a good settlement can often result in advantageous business solutions. As circumstances warrant, we assemble a skilled team from our deep bench to assist with crafting settlements before, during, and after trial so the litigation team can remain focused on the trial. Historically, some of our most significant achievements for clients have been attained through tactics that allowed them to meet their business and financial goals without the risks attendant to having a judge, jury, arbitration panel, administrative board, or appellate panel decide their future.

If your case goes to trial, the right team makes all the difference

When trial is the best or only option, Finnegan brings the right mix of technical expertise and trial and appellate experience. For 60 years, we have successfully litigated hundreds of cases involving the most technologically advanced and complex patents and argued the decisions on appeal by intentionally setting the trial record and fully preserving issues.

We have patent professionals who hold Ph.D.’s in fields ranging from neurobiology to electrical engineering, and more than a hundred hold master’s degrees. Before and during trial, our knowledge and intellectual firepower are applied to make the most intricate issues easily understood and to undercut the opposing side’s arguments. We build and present cases that are accurate, understandable, and persuasive.

Insight into every forum

We know the forums for IP disputes because we have successfully argued cases in the top IP venues for jurisdictions we serve, including in German regional civil courts, U.S. district courts, the UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, the UK High Court, the German Federal Patent Court (FPC), the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ), the UK Court of Appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. We have also worked at these courts and agencies, and many of our professionals have backgrounds as judicial law clerks in trial and appellate courts. Across our eleven global offices, we diligently helped clients prepare for the June 2023 opening of the European Union’s Unified Patent Court (UPC), and we were among the first firms to file an action in the UPC.