Tolpin Law

I'll research this firm before drafting.

Let me verify the tracked case and the firm's key attorney.

Firm overview. The entity tracked as "Tolpin Law" corresponds to Tolpin & Partners PC, an intellectual property boutique at 30 N. LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago (tolpinlaw.com). It was founded in 2008 by Brett M. Tolpin and operates from a single office — no regional or national footprint was found. This is a micro-boutique, not BigLaw: the firm's own homepage currently describes it as "two attorneys with over 50 years combined experience," while older cached versions cite "30," "50," and "80+ years" of combined experience, suggesting a very small roster that has fluctuated over time. No AmLaw, Chambers, Vault, or Law360 firm ranking was located for this firm, and none should be assumed. The firm does hold itself out as available local counsel for matters in the Northern District of Illinois.

IP litigation specialty. The practice is generalist IP rather than concentrated in any single technology vertical: patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, and related commercial disputes (Disputes practice page). The firm's patents page lists prosecution and enforcement across electronics, computers, communications, internet, software, semiconductors, solar, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, mechanical/machine arts, vehicles, lasers, medical devices, and consumer products — a broad prosecution-oriented technical range rather than a standards-essential or Wi-Fi litigation niche. The single tracked litigation matter is software/data-processing related (see below). The firm separately maintains a meaningful TTAB practice; founder Brett Tolpin is a former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney who briefed and argued before the TTAB.

Side preference. On tracked data the firm sits on the defense side only — 1 appearance, 0 plaintiff-side — and that appearance is in an of counsel capacity rather than as counsel of record. That is consistent with the firm's self-description: it states it is "equally comfortable enforcing our clients' intellectual property rights or defending against allegations of infringement," with a mediation/settlement-first orientation rather than a plaintiff's verdict-driven model. Treat the defense-only count as a small-sample artifact of a one-case dataset, not a reliable statement of docket-wide posture.

Notable tracked case. Linfo IP, LLC v. The Gap, Inc. — a patent-assertion-entity suit brought by Linfo IP (represented by Ramey LLP) against The Gap asserting U.S. Patent No. 9,092,428, covering text-content information discovery used in e-commerce search and product-discovery interfaces. Filed in E.D. Tex. (No. 6:23-cv-00635, Dec. 31, 2023); transferred on the parties' joint motion to S.D. Tex., Houston Division (No. 4:24-cv-01895) on May 14, 2024; settled, with an order of dismissal entered July 15, 2024 (S.D. Tex. docket). No merits ruling, verdict, or Federal Circuit appeal exists in this matter. Caveat: the public docket excerpts I retrieved list Findlay Craft PC and Klarquist Sparkman as Gap's counsel of record; I could not independently confirm Mark R. Bagley's "of counsel" appearance in the public records available to me, so that attribution rests on your structured case list.

PTAB / IPR practice. I found no public evidence of a notable IPR, PGR, or CBM filing practice at this firm — no PTAB proceeding volume, no reported institution decisions, and no firm page describing a post-grant practice. The firm's USPTO-facing work appears concentrated in prosecution and TTAB oppositions/cancellations. Given the firm's size, it is not plausible as a high-volume post-grant filer, and no public report supports any scale figure.

Key personnel. Brett M. Tolpin — founder and principal; 20+ years in IP, former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney (5 years), former INTA "Famous and Well-Known Marks" U.S. subcommittee chair (two terms), admitted in Illinois, Washington, N.D. Ill., W.D. Wash., and the U.S. Supreme Court (bio). Mark R. Bagley — the attorney tied to the tracked case; litigator with patent, trademark, copyright, and design-patent trial experience, CIPP/US certified, J.D. University of Chicago (1999), admitted in Illinois and Missouri and before the Seventh and Federal Circuits (bio). Thomas W. Tolpin — identified on the firm's patents page as patent manager and a former in-house patent counsel for a large multinational corporation; public patent-assignment records separately associate a Thomas W. Tolpin with Motorola/Motorola Mobility filings, though I could not confirm that the assignment-record attorney and the firm's patent manager are the same person from a firm-controlled source.

Bottom line: a two-to-handful-attorney Chicago IP boutique with a broad prosecution base, a modest defense-side litigation docket, meaningful TTAB activity, and no verifiable post-grant or appellate IP litigation track record beyond individual attorney experience.