Headquartered within steps of the USPTO with an affiliate office in Tokyo, Oblon is one of the largest law firms in the United States focused exclusively on intellectual property law.
1968
Norman Oblon with Stanley Fisher and Marvin Spivak launched what was to become Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, one of the nation's leading full-service intellectual property law firms.
Outside the US, we service companies based in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and farther corners of the world. Our culturally aware attorneys speak many languages, including Japanese, French, German, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese.
Oblon's professionals provide industry-leading IP legal services to many of the world's most admired innovators and brands.
From the minute you walk through our doors, you'll become a valuable part of a team that fosters a culture of innovation, client service and collegiality.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued final rules implementing the inventor's oath or declaration provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) on August 14, 2012.
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Oblon, Spivak continues to earn high ratings from Ocean Tomo Patent Ratings. Ocean Tomo rates patents, companies, and law firms for IAM Magazine’sweekly e-mails, rotating between eight different categories of patented technologies each week. In rating the relative quality of USPTO-issued patents, Ocean Tomo accounts for over 50 relevant factors that correlate strongly with patent survival rates. The company and law firm ratings then consider both the average quality measurement for issued patents as well as the quantity of patents issued.
In the most recent ratings in each category, Oblon, Spivak has earned the highest ratings for any firm in industrials, materials, telecommunications, and energy. The firm has also earned high ratings for its information technology, consumer discretionary, and consumer staples patents in several of the ratings in recent months. These high ratings show that Oblon, Spivak has obtained high quality patents for its clients, and in large quantities across several industries.
As a leading law firm in the practice of intellectual property law, our goal is to continue to provide clients with the highest quality of service available.