Intellectual Property
Our IP attorneys obtain, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights in the United States and abroad for our clients. We are also extremely well versed at monetizing our clients’ intellectual property assets through various business transactions. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to emerging companies to universities to individuals.
Our activities include regularly counseling our clients about patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets; practicing before government agencies to secure those rights; rendering patentability and patent, trademark, and copyright infringement opinions; litigating to protect intellectual property; handling arbitration, mediation, and other litigation alternatives; and negotiating licenses, joint ventures, divestitures and similar business transactions to maximize the value of our clients’ intellectual property.
In short, if the matter involves intellectual property, we can and will handle it; and will do so with a highly experienced team that takes the time to understand your intellectual property objectives and formulates a plan to achieve them. Many of our IP attorneys hold advanced degrees in engineering or applied science and are licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Moreover, their technical knowledge is balanced with considerable litigation and business experience.
Litigation
Winning an IP case is the product of experience and the execution of a skillful, balanced strategy. Jackson Walker’s team of IP attorneys and trial lawyers have litigated all types of intellectual property matters in federal and state courts across the United States, from California to Virginia, and from Illinois to Texas. We successfully represent numerous corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, in infringement lawsuits involving trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, patents, and copyrights. Our experience includes successful appeals to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Our IP trial lawyers have also enforced and defended our clients’ intellectual property rights in arbitrations, alternative dispute forums, and proceedings before the International Trade Commission.
Patents
Our patent attorneys work with inventors and companies to file and to prosecute patent applications to protect their inventions, both domestically and abroad. Working closely with attorneys in Jackson Walker’s venture capital and tax disciplines, the IP attorneys also draft and coordinate various transfers of technological assets for commercial development and marketing. This includes negotiations with foreign entities, multiple party transfers of technology, and protection of the assets through patents in various foreign countries. And with their strong technical backgrounds and their experience handling post-grant proceedings before the Patent Office and patent litigation in numerous jurisdictions throughout the country, Jackson Walker’s IP attorneys bring a unique combination of skills, experience, and resources to each matter.
Trademarks
The most valuable assets of a company are often its trademarks. For both established and developing companies, our attorneys evaluate potential trademarks and existing trademark and trade name rights, and procure trademark registrations in the U.S. and abroad. We routinely transfer and license trademark rights, and also enforce trademark rights through U.S. Customs’ registration, negotiation, and litigation. In addition to trademarks, our IP attorneys litigate trade name and unfair competition matters, as well as handle product counterfeiting matters.
Copyrights
We handle all types of copyright matters, including the acquisition of copyright registrations for such items as books, jewelry, musical compositions, recordings, plays, artistic creations, and computer software. We also counsel and assist clients in transferring interests in copyrighted works and represent them in copyright infringement cases, ranging from computer software, to ornamental designs, to architectural works.
Technology Licensing & Transactions
Our IP attorneys work side-by-side with our attorneys in other groups to offer our clients an integrated approach to valuing, protecting, and commercializing intellectual property.
Trade Secrets
We work closely with our clients to create programs to identify, protect, and promote trade secret assets. Trade Secret assets have unique issues, particularly in transactions involving licensing and acquisition of these assets. We regularly counsel and develop strategies with our clients for developing programs to identify such information and to police its protection through secrecy programs, confidentiality agreements, and seminars and work closely with our clients on protecting these assets during the negotiation of acquisition agreements and during litigation.
Jackson Walker Secures Favorable Trademark Injunction and Global Resolution for Otiima Industries
Jackson Walker announces a significant victory on behalf of Otiima Industries, S.A., a Portugal‑based manufacturer of high‑performance, luxury window systems. Following coordinated litigation and trademark proceedings, the firm obtained preliminary injunctive relief and guided the client to a favorable resolution that preserves Otiima’s U.S. trademark rights and market position.
Client Results • February 9, 2026
Jackson Walker Represents Cambridgeport Capital in Sale of Integrity Assessment Group
Jackson Walker represented JRGO, LLC d/b/a Integrity Assessment Group (“IAG”), a leading provider of pipeline integrity and other testing services for the energy industry, and its controlling equityholder, Cambridgeport Capital, in a sale transaction with XCEL NDT, a portfolio company of Greycliff Partners. The transaction closed on September 8, 2025, for an undisclosed amount.
Client Results • October 27, 2025
Jackson Walker Advises $17B Investment Management Firm Crestline in Sale to Rithm Capital Corp.
Jackson Walker is advising Fort Worth-based Crestline Management in connection with its entry into a definitive agreement to sell to Rithm Capital Corp. (NYSE: RITM), a global alternative asset manager. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Client Results • September 9, 2025
Concentra Expands Occupational Health Services With Acquisition of Nova Medical Centers
Jackson Walker represented Concentra Group Holdings Parent, Inc. in its acquisition of U.S. Occmed Holdings, the parent company of Nova Medical Centers. The transaction marks a significant milestone in Concentra’s strategic expansion in the occupational health services sector.
Client Results • April 2, 2025
Jackson Walker Secures Denial of IPR of AS-Schneider Patent
Wasif Qureshi and Blake Dietrich successfully prevented institution of inter partes review (IPR) of Germany-based AS-Schneider’s U.S. Patent No. 9,851,030 pertaining to its innovative stabilized connector assembly to interface between a gas pipeline and a flow measurement instrument.
Client Results • January 21, 2025
Jackson Walker Represents M1 Support Services in Sale of Controlling Interest to Cerberus Capital Management
Jackson Walker represented M1 Support Services, a Texas-based provider of aviation services to the United States government for critical military aircraft and aviation programs, in the sale of a controlling interest to Cerberus Capital Management.
Client Results • June 5, 2024
Cirrus Logic Rises in IPO’s “Patent 300” List of the World’s Leading Innovators
Cirrus Logic, a leader in low-power, high-precision mixed-signal processing solutions, has been listed among the top 300 U.S.-issued patent assignees for 2023 by the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). This is the fourth time the company was included in the annual list of innovators.
Client Results • January 22, 2024
Jennifer Caughey and Bob Latham Secure Appellate Win in Architectural Copyright Case
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied rehearing en banc in Loeb v. Mako, L.L.C. d/b/a Padua Realty Company, setting critical precedent as to licensing, contracts, and copyright law. This victory for Jackson Walker clients not only addressed important legal principles, but it also ended a long journey defending against claims seeking billions of dollars in a relatively new area of copyright litigation.
Client Results • October 18, 2023
Cirrus Logic Returns to IPO’s “Patent 300” for Securing 165 US Patents in 2022
Cirrus Logic, a leader in low-power, high-precision mixed-signal processing solutions, has been listed among the top 300 U.S.-issued patent assignees for 2022 by the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). This is the third time the company was included in the annual list of innovators.
Client Results • March 8, 2023
Jackson Walker Celebrates Cirrus Logic Inventor’s Milestone of 500 Registered Patents
Jackson Walker celebrates the momentum of Austin-based Cirrus Logic, a leader in low-power, high-precision mixed-signal processing solutions. With about 4,130 patents issued and pending worldwide, the fabless semiconductor supplier is benefiting from solid growth opportunities and the mind of one of the world’s most prolific inventors, John Melanson.
Client Results • October 12, 2022
Seven Jackson Walker Attorneys Named to Lawdragon’s List of 500 Leading Global Entertainment and Sports & Media Lawyers
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of the following seven partners to Lawdragon’s 2026 list of “The 500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers”:
Attorney News • February 23, 2026
Jackson Walker and Shannon Zmud Teicher Shortlisted for Managing IP’s Americas Awards
Jackson Walker has been shortlisted by Managing IP for the 2026 Americas Awards for Firm of the Year in the United States for Patent Disputes and Trademark Disputes. Additionally, partner Shannon Zmud Teicher has been shortlisted for the Trademark Litigator (South) award.
Attorney News • February 16, 2026
‘D CEO’ Features Nathaniel St. Clair Among Dallas 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders
In the 2026 Dallas 500 edition of D CEO Magazine, Jackson Walker partner Nate St. Clair has been recognized among the most powerful business leaders in Business & IP Litigation in North Texas.
Attorney News • November 19, 2025
Jackson Walker Earns 27 National and 142 Metropolitan Rankings in 2026 Edition of “Best Law Firms”
Jackson Walker proudly announces its inclusion in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms® by Best Lawyers. This year, Jackson Walker observed notable improvements in the rankings, including the addition of Construction Law as National Tier 3 and the advancement and additions of 14 practice areas in the metropolitan rankings.
Spotlight • November 6, 2025
Jackson Walker Partner Art Gollwitzer to Join Federalist Society Panel on PTAB Reform
On Tuesday, October 28 at 12 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Central, partner Art Gollwitzer will join a distinguished panel hosted by the Federalist Society to discuss the future of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) under the America Invents Act (AIA). The webinar, titled SAP, Motorola, and the Future of PTAB Reform, will explore recent developments in Inter Partes Review (IPR) procedures, including the policy shift under PTO Director John Squires.
Speaking Engagements • October 27, 2025
Lee B. Hunt Appointed to the International Trademark Association Rights of Publicity Committee
Jackson Walker is proud to announce that senior counsel Lee B. Hunt has been appointed to the International Trademark Association (INTA) Rights of Publicity Committee for the 2026–2027 term.
Attorney News • October 17, 2025
