Haynes and Boone, LLP and nine of its lawyers are included in the 2023 edition of Patexia Inc.’s PTAB Intelligence Report on the nation’s leaders in all proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
Among the report’s highlights are a number of improved standings: Haynes Boone ranked as the seventh most active firm overall (representing petitioners or patent owners); the sixth best performing firm representing petitioners; the eighth best firm among the 100 Best Performing Law Firms Overall (representing petitioners or patent owners); and remained ranked as the fourth most active firm representing petitioners.
Nine Haynes Boone lawyers – David McCombs, Andrew Ehmke, Eugene Goryunov, Raghav Bajaj, Theo Foster, Gregory Huh, Scott Jarratt, Jonathan Bowser, and Calmann Clements – were ranked among the top practitioners.
The 2023 report covers 7,184 PTAB proceedings, including 6,849 IPRs, 282 post-grant reviews, 48 covered business methods and five derivation proceedings over a five-year period from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2023. Patexia analyzed 4,898 unique patents and 82,457 unique patent claims challenged over the last five years to come up with the activity, success, and performance scores for all attorneys, law firms, and companies on the patent owner and petitioner sides. Patexia also surveyed more than 6,000 lawyers and more than 990 law firms in arriving at its rankings.
Below is the breakdown of Haynes Boone rankings.
The firm ranked in the following categories:
- Fourth among the 100 most active law firms representing petitioners
- Seventh among the 100 most active law firms overall (up from eighth place in 2022)
- Sixth among the 100 best performing law firms representing petitioners, with a performance score of 95.78% (up from ninth place)
- 36th among the best performing law firms representing patent owners, with a performance score of 86.83% (up from 38th place)
- Eighth among the 100 Best Performing Law Firms Overall (representing petitioners or patent owners), with an overall performance score of 95.13% (up from 40th place)
- 45th among the 100 Most Active Law Firms representing patent owners, with 39 patent owner cases (up from 57th place)
Top 100 most active attorneys representing petitioners:
- McCombs ranked 12th with 113 petitioner cases.
- Ehmke ranked 15th with 83 petitioner cases.
- Bowser ranked 30th with 83 petitioner cases.
- Foster ranked 44th with 66 petitioner cases.
- Bajaj ranked 50th with 55 petitioner cases.
- Goryunov ranked 59th with 63 petitioner cases.
- Clements ranked 67th with 42 petitioner cases.
Top 100 most active attorneys overall representing petitioners or patent owners:
- McCombs ranked 35th with 121 cases.
- Ehmke ranked 52nd with 83 cases.
- Bowser ranked 66th with 93 cases.
- Foster ranked 98th with 71 cases.
Top 100 best performing attorneys representing petitioners:
- Ehmke ranked third with a performance score of 91.52%.
- Jarratt ranked 23rd with a performance scored of 86.41%.
- Clements ranked 56th with a performance score of 81.88%
- Foster ranked 70th with a performance score of 80.24%.
- Huh ranked 73rd with a performance score of 79.96%.
- McCombs ranked 86th with a performance score of 79.11%.
Top 100 best performing attorneys (representing petitioners or patent owners):
- Ehmke ranked 11th with an overall performance score of 94.93%.
- McCombs ranked 45th with an overall performance score of 90.86%.
- Jarratt ranked 53rd with an overall performance score of 90.20%.
- Clements ranked 90th with an overall performance score of 86.24%.
Haynes Boone’s IP Practice Group is a full-service practice including patent procurement, litigation and trial proceedings before the PTAB, where the firm is nationally recognized for successes in both defending clients’ patent IP and invalidating claims that are asserted against clients but never should have been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). These PTAB trial proceedings include IPR, covered business method (CBM) review, post-grant review (PGR), and other proceedings before the PTAB.
