NEW YORK, June 2, 2025: Morgan Lewis has achieved multiple recognitions in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2025 guide, earning and maintaining practice and lawyer rankings and recommendations across six US states and Washington, DC, nationally, and in China, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The IAM Patent 1000 guide, released by Globe Business Media Group, highlights leading global practitioners in patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation. These rankings are determined through feedback from peers and clients as well as independent research. The publication evaluates and ranks law firms and individual lawyers in various categories within their respective jurisdictions.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze designations are awarded in the litigation categories; the other two categories are Highly Recommended or Recommended. In the 2025 guide, the firm earned 16 rankings, rising in two areas, and 32 lawyers were individually ranked, with several newly named to the guide.
Firm Rankings:
- Silver, Litigation, US National
- NEW: Silver, Litigation, California
- Silver, Litigation, Illinois
- Silver, Litigation, Pennsylvania
- Bronze, Litigation, DC Metro Area
- Bronze, Litigation, Texas
- NEW: Bronze, China: Foreign
- Highly Recommended, Prosecution, Pennsylvania
- Recommended, International
- Recommended, International Trade Commission, US National
- Recommended, Prosecution, California
- Recommended, Prosecution, DC Metro Area
- Recommended, Prosecution, Massachusetts
- Recommended, Transactions, California
- Recommended, Transactions, Massachusetts
- Recommended, Transactions, Pennsylvania
Lawyer Rankings:
- Michael Abernathy: Litigation, Silver (Illinois); International Trade Commission, Recommended (US National)
- Stephen Altieri: Prosecution, Recommended (Massachusetts); Transactions, Highly Recommended (Massachusetts)
- Louis Beardell, Jr.: Prosecution, Highly Recommended (Pennsylvania)
- Natalie Bennett: Litigation, Bronze (DC Metro Area)
- Dion Bregman: Prosecution, Recommended (California); Post-Grant Proceedings, Recommended (US National)
- Seth Gerber: Trade Secret Litigation, Recommended (US National)
- Julie Goldemberg: Litigation, Silver (Pennsylvania)
- NEW: Sarah Guske: Litigation, Bronze (California)
- Brent Hawkins: Litigation, Silver (California)
- Mark Hayman: Transactions, Recommended (Massachusetts)
- Rahul Kapoor: Transactions, Recommended (California)
- Hosang Lee: Prosecution, Recommended (DC Metro Area)
- Alan Leeds: Transactions, Recommended (New Jersey)
- David Levy: Litigation, Bronze (Texas)
- Janice Logan: Prosecution, Recommended (DC Metro Area)
- Michael Lyons: Litigation, Silver (California)
- Christina MacDougall: Prosecution, Recommended (California)
- Jeffry Mann: Prosecution, Recommended (California)
- Eric Namrow: Litigation, Silver (DC Metro Area); International Trade Commission, Recommended (US National)
- NEW: Tim Powell: Litigation, Gold (UK: England and Wales)
- Rick Rambo: Litigation, Bronze (Texas)
- Manita Rawat: Prosecution, Recommended (California)
- NEW: Ali Razai: Litigation, Bronze (California)
- NEW: Alexander Ritter: Infringement, Bronze (Germany)
- Stephanie Roberts: Litigation, Bronze (DC Metro Area)
- NEW: Hiroshi Sheraton: Litigation, Silver (UK: England and Wales)
- Nathan Smith: Prosecution, Recommended (California)
- Robert Smyth: Prosecution, Recommended (DC Metro Area)
- Yalei Sun: Prosecution, Recommended (China: Foreign)
- Jason White: Litigation, Gold (Illinois)
- Gary Williams: Prosecution, Recommended (California)
- Amanda Williamson: Litigation, Bronze (Illinois)
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