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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For Immediate Release
Alexandria, VA –Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that seven partners have been named to the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Charles L. Gholz, Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Arthur I. Neustadt, and Norman F. Oblon are all recognized as among the best in Intellectual Property Law or Litigation. Best Lawyers is widely regarded as the preeminent referral source to the legal profession in the United States.
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which more than 36,000 leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 20th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2013) is based on more than 4.4 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Click here to view the Oblon Spivak listing on the Best Lawyers website.