Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (marketed since 2021 as "Akin") is a full-service BigLaw firm founded in Dallas in 1945 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It fields roughly 890–900 lawyers across approximately 18 offices in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with major U.S. presences in Washington, New York, Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth), Los Angeles/Irvine, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The firm ranked 38th on The American Lawyer's 2025 Am Law 200 with ~$1.49 billion in 2024 gross revenue, and reported surpassing $1.7 billion for 2025; it ranked 44th on the Global 200. This is a general-practice international firm, not an IP boutique — IP litigation sits within a broader litigation and lobbying platform.

IP litigation specialty. Chambers describes Akin's IP group as "renowned throughout the field for its work on complex patent disputes," with particular depth in life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biologics and biosimilar litigation) alongside electronics and technology. The tracked matters reflect that range: semiconductor and display disputes (Semiconductor Components Industries v. Greenthread; LG Display v. Delaware Display Group; Delaware Display Group v. Lenovo; Phenix Longhorn v. AU Optronics), wireless audio (Sonos v. D&M Holdings), voice/AI and networking (Voxer v. Amazon; Perceptive Automata v. Tesla; Intent IQ v. Google), and medical devices (Wound Healing Technologies v. Solventum). Firm bios also cite ITC Section 337 experience and wireless/standards work. Eleven Akin lawyers were named to the 2026 IAM Patent 1000.

Side preference. Akin works both sides of the "v." The tracked data show 8 plaintiff-side and 10 defendant-side appearances — essentially balanced. On defense it has represented operating companies such as Sonos, LG Display, Lenovo, Lyft and The Gap; on the plaintiff/patent-owner side it has represented Semiconductor Components Industries, Wound Healing Technologies, Voxer and Perceptive Automata, and it has taken the petitioner side in AIA proceedings (including for Unified Patents). The pattern is a defense-leaning commercial practice for technology and life-sciences companies that also accepts select assertion-side and IPR-petitioner engagements, rather than an NPE-focused prosecution shop.

Notable tracked matters. Voxer, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (D. Del., filed 2025) is among the more prominent — Akin's Steven Maslowski is identified as lead counsel; Voxer has publicly pointed to a prior $206 million jury award against Meta (later vacated by settlement) as validation of the patents-in-suit. Sonos v. D&M Holdings was a multi-patent Delaware campaign in the wireless multi-room audio market (Sonos's PLAY products against D&M's HEOS line). Other tracked matters include Perceptive Automata v. Tesla, Intent IQ v. Google, Excalibur IP v. Lyft and Linfo IP v. The Gap. Beyond the tracked list, firm partners Maslowski and Michael Kahn are publicly credited with a $20 million verdict for Boston Scientific in 2021 and with the damages phase of the Centocor v. Abbott "Humira" case (a record $1.67 billion jury verdict later modified on appeal). Outcome details for several tracked cases are not independently confirmed in the sources reviewed here, and none should be treated as a final result without docket verification.

PTAB / IPR practice. Chambers notes the group is "adept at representing clients in inter partes and post-grant reviews before the PTAB," and USPTO filings show Akin acting as lead and back-up counsel in IPRs for both petitioners (e.g., Vizio, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Unified Patents) and patent owners. The practice spans semiconductors, electronics, and pharmaceutical/biological patents. Public sources do not support a reliable firm-wide IPR filing volume figure, so no scale estimate is offered.

Key practice leaders. Steven D. Maslowski (Philadelphia) heads the firm's IP practice and is consistently ranked for life-sciences patent litigation (IAM Patent 1000, Chambers Band 1). Michael P. Kahn (New York) is repeatedly recognized for competitor-versus-competitor patent suits. Cono A. Carrano (Washington, D.C.) handles semiconductor, electronics and ITC patent matters and is a frequent PTAB lead counsel, and Matthew Pearson (Philadelphia) is ranked for pharmaceutical and biotechnology litigation.