USA Guide 2026 : California
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Our Intellectual Property team advises clients across industries, including technology, life sciences, private equity, and financial services, at every stage of the corporate lifecycle, from emerging companies to established multinationals.
We vigorously defend our clients’ IP assets and assert their IP rights. We also serve as strategic advisors to help clients develop and implement policies and practices for procuring, protecting, and exploiting patents and other IP. And we help clients form, negotiate, and conduct strategic collaborations, partnering transactions, and other licensing arrangements.
Our team has significant expertise, including lawyers with advanced technical degrees and litigators with extensive experience in state and federal courts such as the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, International Trade Commission, and Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
We are renowned for our success in “bet the company” IP litigation — as well as for pragmatic, cost-effective advice on day-to-day IP issues. Law360 named Goodwin one of its Intellectual Property Practices of the Year five times, and our lawyers are consistently recognized by leading publications such as Chambers, U.S. News – Best Lawyers, Managing Intellectual Property, IAM Patent 1000, and LMG Life Sciences.
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Goodwin regularly advises clients on a variety of IP-related issues, including patent litigation and prosecution matters as well as strategic partnerships and licensing issues. The team offers expertise in a number of sectors, including technology and life sciences.
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Goodwin represented Shennon Biotechnologies in patent portfolio strategy and execution relating to its TCR discovery platform.
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The team at Goodwin is highly knowledgeable, thorough and prompt. They help us identify creative approaches to secure our goals.
Goodwin provides excellent service and is highly responsive.
Goodwin has become one of my favorite firms. We get very experienced lawyers paying attention to our matters.
Goodwin always has access to skilled staff and the necessary resources for the relevant matter.
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Michael Shuster is an extremely smart attorney.
Michael Shuster is a fantastic lawyer. He is strategic, his clients like him and he trains his associates well.
Kevin Kabler has superlative domain knowledge and adds extreme value to matters.
Kevin Kabler is an excellent attorney.
Kevin Kabler is even-tempered, thoughtful and business-minded.
Brett Schuman is the co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation practice at Goodwin. He earns recognition for his expertise in patent litigation and arbitration.
Brett Schuman knows patent litigation and is great at keeping me in the loop and involved.
Brett Schuman is a straight shooter, thoughtful and strategic practitioner. He knows how to bring cases to a resolution. I have high respect for him.
Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
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James Riley
Head of Department
Brett Schuman
Head of Department
Brett Schuman
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Practice area: Intellectual Property
Location: Massachusetts
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