Intellectual Property
Dec. 31, 2009
IP Sees Mergers, Shrinkage
The economic downturn that hurt all attorneys turned out to be particularly damaging to intellectual property lawyers in 2009, leading to the acquisition of a couple of IP speciality firms and consolidation by industry leaders.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The economic downturn that hurt all attorneys turned out to be particularly damaging to intellectual property lawyers in 2009, leading to the acquisition of a couple of IP specialty firms and consolidation by industry leaders such as Fish & Richardson.
Patent litigation and prosecution of new patents declined during the year, as corporations cut their budgets devoted to those eff...
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