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Fish & Richardson: The 1878 Firm That Says It Handles Nearly Three Times as Many Patent Cases as Its Nearest Competitor

Origin and Background

Fish & Richardson P.C.’s Houston office is located in downtown Houston; the firm’s own directory listing shows the address as 909 Fannin Street, Suite 2100, Houston, TX 77010, while Super Lawyers’ firm profile separately lists One Houston Center, 1221 McKinney Street, Suite 2800, Houston, TX 77010; Awesome Attorneys recommends confirming the current suite before an in-person visit given this discrepancy. Founded in 1878, Fish & Richardson is one of the oldest intellectual property firms in the country, now operating 15 offices across the United States, Germany, and China with more than 375 attorneys and 60-plus technology specialists firm-wide.

Practice Concentration

Fish & Richardson’s Houston office covers litigation, patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, EU Unitary Patent work, licensing, regulatory matters, trademark, and copyright, according to Martindale’s office listing. Firm-wide, Fish states it filed more than 16,000 worldwide patents in 2025, handled more than 1,200 patent cases in district court over the past five years, and has litigated more than 2,000 Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, which the firm describes as more than any other firm. See this Houston Intellectual Property directory for how this national-scale IP firm compares to other Harris County practices.

Notable Work / Track Record

Fish & Richardson states it is the No. 1 U.S. patent litigation firm, handling nearly three times as many cases as its nearest competitor, and the No. 1 firm at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board by case volume. The firm also reports more than 370 Federal Circuit IP appeals over the past five years, which it states is more than any other firm. Managing Intellectual Property magazine has named Fish the U.S. Firm of the Year in three separate categories: Patent Contentious, Life Sciences IP Litigation, and PTAB, according to Wikipedia’s summary of the firm’s history. These are firm-reported volume and ranking statistics rather than individual case outcomes with a stated dollar recovery.

Client Voice

Fish & Richardson’s Houston office carries a 4.7 out of 5.0 rating across 118 peer reviews on Martindale, an unusually high review volume for this category. One peer reviewer describes a Houston-office trademark attorney’s knowledge as “unsurpassed,” while another describes a colleague’s legal knowledge as “exceptional” in both co-counsel and opposing-counsel settings — peer endorsements rather than client reviews, consistent with a firm serving large corporate clients rather than individual consumers.

Beyond the Courtroom

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a formalized pro bono case count or individual nonprofit board service specific to the Houston office in the sources reviewed. The firm’s public materials emphasize its “creative and inclusive culture” as a stated value without itemizing specific diversity or community programs in the sources Awesome Attorneys reviewed.

Recognition for This Houston Intellectual Property Firm

Fish & Richardson holds Tier 1 regional rankings from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms guide across multiple categories, including Trademark Law, Technology Law, Patent Litigation, Patent Law, and Intellectual Property Litigation. The firm’s Houston office holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, awarded in 2021. Because patent attorneys are credentialed through USPTO registration rather than Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification, Awesome Attorneys notes this distinction rather than applying “specialist” language based on a state board credential that does not exist for this specialty.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Patent litigation, Fish’s core national practice, proceeds almost entirely under federal law through federal district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Federal Circuit rather than Texas state statutes. The nearby Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas have historically handled a substantial share of the nation’s patent infringement filings, giving a Houston-based practice direct proximity to that docket. Trademark and copyright matters blend federal law (the Lanham Act, the Copyright Act) with Texas’s own trade-secret statute, the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act under Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 134A. None of this is legal advice; a specific patent, trademark, or copyright matter should be evaluated by a licensed and USPTO-registered attorney based on the actual facts involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Fish & Richardson’s clearest differentiator is sheer national scale and volume: a 147-year-old firm claiming the top spot in U.S. patent litigation case volume, PTAB proceedings, and Federal Circuit appeals, with a Houston office carrying an unusually large and strongly rated peer-review record. The honest trade-off is that this is a large, institutional national firm rather than a boutique, and pricing and engagement models will differ substantially from the smaller Houston-only practices elsewhere in this category; Awesome Attorneys also found a real discrepancy in the office’s current suite number across sources worth confirming directly. For a company facing significant patent litigation or seeking a firm with the deepest possible bench and national case-volume track record, Fish & Richardson’s scale is a reasonable basis for a shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Fish & Richardson’s official website (fr.com), including its Houston office page and firm-wide statistics page, Super Lawyers’ and Martindale’s Houston office listings and peer reviews, and Wikipedia’s summary of the firm’s history and awards.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

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