Intellectual Property
Protecting and defending your ideas and innovations.
Recognized by Chambers, Legal 500, and Managing IP for sustained excellence, our team secures, defends, and enforces your most vital innovations and brand identities through high-stakes, precedent-setting litigation, end-to-end portfolio management, strategic counseling and protection of trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets—domestically and abroad.
We represent Fortune 100 companies, emerging growth businesses, and leading research universities in state and federal courts, the International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and jurisdictions worldwide. Clients rely on us when the stakes are highest—launching products into emerging markets, acquiring companies with complex IP portfolios, or defending core technologies against competitors.
Our team helps clients with the building and executing of licensing programs that structure technology transfers that unlock new business lines, and deliver freedom-to-operate, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions that let clients move forward with confidence rather than litigate. We also help monetize intellectual property assets through a range of business transactions that drive value over risk.
We Offer Business Focused Comprehensive Legal Services
- Counseling on Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets
- Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business Transactions
- Infringement Opinions
Industries We Serve
- technology, computer hardware and software
- manufacturing
- semiconductors
- education
- media, entertainment and sports
- financial institutions
- retail
- energy
- life sciences
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
Jackson Walker Earns 26 National and 147 Metropolitan Rankings in 2027 Edition of “Best Law Firms”
Jackson Walker proudly announces its inclusion in the 2027 edition of Best Law Firms® by Best Lawyers. This year, Jackson Walker observed notable improvements in the rankings, including the addition of Securities Regulation as National Tier 3 and the addition of 5 practice areas in the metropolitan rankings.
Spotlight • November 5, 2026
Leisa Talbert Peschel Featured in Bloomberg Law Discussing Hospital–Biotech Partnerships in IP Litigation
Jackson Walker partner Leisa Talbert Peschel was featured in a recent Bloomberg Law article examining why hospitals often turn to biotechnology companies as partners to commercialize healthcare innovations and enforce the patent rights behind them.
Attorney News • October 12, 2026
Training Day: Third Circuit Affirms Westlaw Headnotes Decision in AI Copyright Fair Use Case
By Emilio B. Nicolas
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued the first federal appellate decision directly addressing copyright fair use in the AI-training context. On September 29, 2026, in a long-running and closely watched legal battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-defunct startup ROSS Intelligence, the Third Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision that Ross infringed the copyrights in Thomson Reuters’s Westlaw headnotes by using them to train an AI-driven legal research tool.
Insights • October 5, 2026
Wasif Qureshi Discusses the Rise of Patent and Trade Secret Disputes in the Data Center Industry
Jackson Walker partner Wasif Qureshi was recently quoted by Bloomberg Law about how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, and the data centers that power them, are reshaping the physical and economic landscape while fueling a new wave of patent and trade secret disputes.
Mentions • August 21, 2026
‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Features 360 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2027 Edition, Including 12 “Lawyers of the Year” and 122 “Ones to Watch”
The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 360 Jackson Walker attorneys across 82 specialty practice areas in its 2027 edition, including 12 Lawyers of the Year and 122 Ones to Watch. Best Lawyers listings are based on an exhaustive peer review survey of thousands of attorneys who vote on the legal abilities of others in their practice areas. For over three decades, recognition in Best Lawyers has been regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, since an attorney cannot pay to be listed.
Attorney News • August 20, 2026
‘Managing IP’ Recognizes Jackson Walker in the 2026 Edition of “IP Stars”
Managing IP, a global resource for intellectual property news and analysis, has named Jackson Walker a recommended firm in Texas for both Patent Prosecution and Trade Mark in its 2026 edition of “IP Stars.” In addition, seven Jackson Walker attorneys were recognized among Texas’s leading intellectual property practitioners.
Spotlight • July 30, 2026
‘Austin Monthly’ Lists 53 Jackson Walker Attorneys Among “Austin’s Top Attorneys” of 2026
Jackson Walker congratulates the 53 attorneys recognized among Austin Monthly’s list of “Austin’s Top Attorneys” for 2026. For recognition in the list, Austin attorneys must be nominated by their peers on the basis that they offer experienced counsel in one of 40 categories.
Attorney News • July 10, 2026
Chambers and Partners Releases 2026 USA Guide Featuring 88 Jackson Walker Attorneys and 30 Ranked Departments
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce that Chambers and Partners has selected 88 attorneys and 30 departments for inclusion in the 2026 edition of the Global and USA guides. Attorneys were ranked across 29 departments, with 6 attorneys listed among multiple areas, 9 ranked nationwide in their respective areas, and 12 recognized for the first time.
Spotlight • June 4, 2026
