Fish & Richardson announced today that Ruffin Cordell has been named an “Intellectual Property (IP) Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal (NLJ) for his “deep passion and perseverance in pursuit of his mission” and for “having achieved remarkable successes.”  This year’s IP Trailblazers annual list was culled from hundreds of nominations of leaders in patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law. 

Cordell, who is a principal in Fish’s Washington, D.C. office, is a powerhouse patent litigator with deep experience at the district and appellate courts, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) where he is considered a true visionary at handling Section 337 patent proceedings.  In the early 1990s, after procedural changes made patent cases easier to bring in the ITC, Cordell saw the opportunity to provide his high profile clients with faster and more definitive protection for their products.  He is now considered one of, if not the, top IP attorney in the country trying cases before the ITC, and has handled well over 50 ITC cases.  Many of Cordell’s cases involve multi-jurisdictional disputes at both the ITC and in the federal district courts.  Cordell is the attorney that many of the largest companies in the world trust with their highest stakes patent litigation.

Fish & Richardson is a global patent, intellectual property (IP) litigation, and commercial litigation law firm with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists across the U.S. and Europe.  Fish has been named the #1 patent litigation firm in the U.S. for 13 consecutive years and is one of the busiest post-grant firms, representing more petitioners at the PTAB than any other firm.  Fish has been winning cases worth billions in controversy – often by making new law – for the most innovative clients and influential industry leaders since 1878.  For more information, visit www.fr.com.