With 15 attorneys recognized and an impressive collection of firm rankings, the 2024 edition of Patexia Inc.’s “PTAB Intelligence Report” highlights Haynes and Boone, LLP’s continued success in managing and winning high-stakes Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cases.
Haynes Boone ranks 9th in overall activity at the PTAB and 5th for petitioners challenging patents—placing it in the top 1 percent of all firms at the PTAB.
On Patexia’s Petitioner Performance measure, the firm also ranked in the top 1 percent of firms—one of only two of the top 10 firms to achieve this level of performance for petitioners. These rankings highlight the ability of the firm’s Patent Office Trials practice to not only manage a high volume of cases, but also to win them.
On top of the strong firm-wide performance, 15 Haynes Boone attorneys rank in this year’s report, a significant jump from the nine included last year.
- Partner David McCombs is recognized as a Top 20 Most Active PTAB Attorney. He ranks 17th in petitioner activity out of 1000 attorneys, handling 97 cases this past year.
- Partner Andrew Ehmke ranks eighth for Petitioner Performance with a top-1-percent win rate.
- Partner Jonathan Bowser continues to be a well-rounded PTAB practitioner with above-average success rates for both patent owner and petitioner cases.
- Counsel Calmann Clements, a rising star in patent owner cases, also achieved a top-1-percent win rate, ranking ninth in Petitioner Performance.
Five attorneys rank in the top 10 percent in Overall Performance: Andrew Ehmke, Eugene Goryunov, Scott Jarratt, Calmann Clements and Angela Oliver.
The firm’s other ranked attorneys in this year’s report are Hong Shi, Andy Lowes, Adam Fowles, Theodore Foster, David O’Dell, David O’Brien, Gregory Huh and Clint Wilkins.
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.
