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Top 25 Appellate patent law firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 65 appellate patent law firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,391 professional contacts across them, including 1,394 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (91 companies); Chicago has 65.
This list covers appellate patent law firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest appellate patent law firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 100 years Banner Witcoff has provided sound protection and inventive intellectual property solutions for some of the world’s most innovative organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP was founded in 1992 by a group of trial lawyers who left a large Chicago firm to better serve the needs of their clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP has one focus - intellectual property law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McAndrews, Held & Malloy is a premier, full-service intellectual property and technology law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leydig, Voit & Mayer remains at the forefront of intellectual property law, providing advice and counsel in intellectual property litigation, licensing, and prosecution services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At MBHB, the legal and scientific credentials of our professionals are first rate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering extraordinary results to leading companies and individuals in their most important matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 160 years of experience, Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP is Chicago’s oldest law firm in continuous practice and a national leader in the field of intellectual…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greer Burns & Crain, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you are searching for the highest level of skill and professional legal service, you have arrived at the right place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a firm of trial attorneys, we understand the cost and risk associated with litigation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HFZ is a boutique IP law firm located in the heart of Chicago, specializing in United States and foreign patent prosecution and counseling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a trial and appellate litigation firm with a 20-year track record of exceptional outcomes for Fortune 500 companies, middle-market leaders, and entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sperling & Slater has a nationwide and international practice focusing on complex commercial and business disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RMMS consists of over 30 attorneys focused exclusively on life sciences patent and regulatory counseling, patent litigation under Hatch-Waxman and the BPCIA, as well as post-grant…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Citius Minds is a leading technology consulting firm supporting clients in advanced patent analytics and end to end patent litigation services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A high-powered law firm for savvy companies, Massey & Gail offers creative solutions in counseling, litigation and appeals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dedication, passion and the courage to try lawsuits are the three qualities that distinguish Williams & John from other law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Irwin IP, a part of Miller Johnson, focuses exclusively on intellectual property and technology-related litigation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC specializes in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other aspects of intellectual property protection and counseling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barker, Castro & Steinback, LLC is a litigation firm with experienced attorneys who understand that the law is a service profession.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FLENER IP & Business Law is a WBE-Certified women-owned business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cook Alex and its predecessors have a distinguished history of providing differentiated intellectual property legal services to a domestic and international client base.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CMN is distinguished by its aggressive and business-minded approach to complex civil litigation, business litigation, and regulatory proceedings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than 25 years ago, six attorneys started a law firm which quickly developed a national reputation as a preeminent litigation law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: appellate patent law firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names appellate patent law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of appellate patent law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name appellate patent law firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Appellate patent law firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 65 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among appellate patent law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “appellate patent law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names appellate patent law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among appellate patent law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,394 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Appellate patent law firms by metro in the United States
- Appellate patent law firms in New York91
- Appellate patent law firms in Houston79
- Appellate patent law firms in Washington63
- Appellate patent law firms in Dallas60
- Appellate patent law firms in Los Angeles55
- Appellate patent law firms in Austin50
- Appellate patent law firms in Atlanta35
- Appellate patent law firms in San Francisco34
- Appellate patent law firms in Irvine33
- Appellate patent law firms in Boston31
- Appellate patent law firms in Miami28
- Appellate patent law firms in San Diego25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names appellate patent law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many appellate patent law firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 65 appellate patent law firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Banner Witcoff, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most appellate patent law firms?
New York leads the United States with 91 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (79) and Chicago (65).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,394 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 65 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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