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Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. In the U.S., Best Lawyers publishes an annual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, which includes 29,575 attorneys in 78 specialties, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Chambers just ranked ours as one of the country’s leading business law firms.

Awards aren’t everything in the legal profession. Still, when you have been selected as one of the country’s leading business law firms - as Dickinson Wright has - it tells you something. Especially when you consider that Chambers does such extensive research in every state to determine the best business lawyers in the country.

And when you consider that 11 of our lawyers achieved individual recognition in five featured practice areas, it just substantiates everything we have been known for since 1878 - credibility, creativity, depth of experience and intellectual firepower. Put our reputation to work for you and let us add value to your enterprise.

Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 60 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Super Lawyers is published as a special supplement in leading newspapers and city and regional magazines across the country. Super Lawyers magazine, featuring articles about attorneys named to the Super Lawyers list, is distributed to all attorneys in the state or region, the lead corporate counsel of Russell 3000 companies and the ABA-approved law school libraries.

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Intellectual Property

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Patents
  • Filing and prosecution of patent applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) as well as in foreign countries

  • Patent infringement analysis

  • Patent license negotiation

  • Assertion/defense of patent rights

  • Patentability investigations and opinions

  • Maintenance of patent rights throughout the world

  • Litigation regarding patent infringement claims


  • Trademarks
  • Registration of trademarks and service marks in the PTO and in foreign countries

  • Enforcement/defense of trademarks

  • Unfair competitive practices involving trademarks and trade names

  • Litigation of trademark and unfair competition disputes

  • Registrability investigations and opinions

  • Maintenance of trademark rights throughout the world

  • Trademark licensing

  • False advertising claims (NAD and television network challenges)


  • Copyright Law
  • Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office

  • Investigations to determine ownership and registration status

  • Investigations of -public domain- books and films

  • Litigation of infringement claims

  • Copyright licensing


  • Expertise and Resources
  • Computer software, electronic circuits, mechanical structures and devices, and organic and inorganic chemistry

  • Worldwide network of associates

  • Computerized database and docketing system of client patents and trademarks, both domestic and foreign


  • For more information, please contact:
    William H. Honaker
    248-433-7381 or whonaker@dickinsonwright.com

    In Washington, D.C., please contact:
    Samuel M. Littlepage
    202-659-6920 or slittlepage@dickinsonwright.com