W|N Client’s Patent Portfolio Tops IT Industry Scorecards

Microsoft, a W|N client since 1995, was recognized earlier this year by IEEE Spectrum, a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, as the IP leader among all technology companies. In addition, the Patent Board, a leading independent provider of patent metrics, ranked Microsoft’s patent portfolio number one in Technology Strength for the IT industry.

With more than 8500 issued patents and another 15,000 or more pending applications, the IEEE Spectrum ranked the Microsoft portfolio in terms of “pipeline power,” which attempts to measure the overall impact of a patent portfolio. The Patent Board’s IT Industry Scorecard ranked Microsoft’s portfolio highest overall in “technology strength,” an aggregate measure of patent quality and quantity, and in “science strength,” an assessment of the degree to which a company’s patent portfolio is linked to core science.

W|N has consistently been recognized by Microsoft as one of its top outside counsel firms in the field of intellectual property. Click here for related story:www.wnspat.com

With some eighty attorneys, W|N ranks among the five largest law firms in Salt Lake City, and specializes in practice areas including computer systems, software, e-commerce and information technology; electronics and electrical engineering; pharmaceutical, neutraceutical, chemical, biotechnology, and medical and life science technologies; physics and optics; mechanics and mechanical engineering; alternative energy; agricultural sciences; IP licensing; and complex IP litigation, interpartes conflicts and mediation and arbitration.