Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP is a midsize business and commercial litigation firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm operates five offices across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia, including locations in Philadelphia, Sharon, Marlton, and Weirton. Recognized by Chambers USA as a leading law firm in Pennsylvania for Litigation and by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Law Firm," Pietragallo provides a range of legal services to clients from Fortune 200 companies to small businesses.

The firm's IP litigation practice, housed within its Commercial Litigation Group, focuses on enforcing contractual rights and protecting intellectual property. Their engagements include patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, as well as trade secret misappropriation. Based on tracked appearances, the firm has been involved in cases related to software, web conferencing systems, and mobile application development tools.

Pietragallo's tracked patent litigation appearances indicate a focus on representing plaintiffs, with one such appearance recorded. In the prominent case of Wapp Tech Limited Partnership et al. v. Google LLC, the firm served as local counsel for the plaintiff, asserting patents related to a web conferencing system. This case ultimately resulted in a dismissal by the district court, affirmed by the Federal Circuit in January 2026, on the grounds that the asserted claims were directed to an abstract idea and thus patent-ineligible. Additionally, in Wapp Tech Limited Partnership et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., concerning mobile app performance simulation patents, the case concluded with a stipulated dismissal with prejudice in March 2025, with each party bearing its own costs.

While the firm has published on the challenges to patent validity under the America Invents Act, indicating familiarity with Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings, specific public data on the volume or scale of their PTAB/IPR practice is not reliably available. Key attorneys involved in the firm's patent litigation efforts include Christopher P. King and K. Nicole Stafford.