I am looking for a total of about five names of good, medium-sized
patent firms close to US patent office.

Please provide names and web addresses of patent firms which have
perhaps about 5-10 patent attorneys (exclude agents), are based in
area close to US Patent Office (DC or VA or MD etc), have been in
business for about 5-10 years, have already sufficient number (say,
around 25) of patents issued (check the number of patents from
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html) and are engaged only
in patent and other Intellectual Property law (instead of all types
legal business) and preferably their services include  patent-related
litigation.

Examples of such firms could be: Litman Law, Harrity & Snyder, Nath &
Associates.
    
Optionally (for a good tip), I would like you to find out if the firm
and the attorneys have a bad reputation.
Regards

Hello aaz-ga:

I have compiled a list of ten firms that meet your criteria. They have
5-10 attorneys, they are medium sized, and they have been in business
more than five years while they are located near your specified areas.
Most of their business is based on Intellectual property law. Please
review the list.

The rankings in brackets designate the rankings of the firm in the top
patent firm data at http://www.iptoday.com/toprank2002.pdf.

You can get more information from the top patent firm list.

Another useful resource is located at http://www.patentratings.com
where you can screen firms by geographical locations and by number of
attorneys. You can also get a detailed report on any of the firms by
subscription.

If percentage change is any indication of the reputation of the firm
than nearly all of them fare well.

Following is the list:

Volentine Francos PLLC (100)
Reston, VA
http://www.volentine.com/
Patent Issues 2001 = 293
Percentage change 00-01 = 3.8 %
Registered Attorneys = 5


Jordan & Hamburg (114)
Arlington, VA
Patent Issues 2001 = 255
Percentage change 00-01 = 19.2 %
Registered Attorneys = 6

Miles & Stockbridge PC (156)
8 offices near Washington DC
http://www.milesstockbridge.com/index.html
Patent Issues 2001 = 154
Percentage change 00-01 = 79.1 %
Registered Attorneys = 6

Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC (160)
Washington DC
http://www.mdslaw.com/
Patent Issues 2001 = 146
Percentage change 00-01 = 37.7 %
Registered Attorneys = 6


Dennison Scheiner Schultz & Wakeman (161)
Arlington, VA
http://www.dennisonlaw.com
Patent Issues 2001 = 141
Percentage change 00-01 = 9.3 %
Registered Attorneys = 5

Keil Keil & Weinkauf (69)
Washington DC
Patent Issues 2001 = 438
Percentage change 00-01 = 15.6 %
Registered Attorneys = 11

Schiif Hardin & Waite (58)
Washington DC
http://www.schiffhardin.com/
Patent Issues 2001 = 496
Percentage change 00-01 = n/a
Registered Attorneys = 9

Bacon & Thomas (24)
http://www.baconthomas.com/
Alexandria, VA
Patent Issues 2001 = 844
Percentage change 00-01 = 11.8%
Registered Attorneys = 8

Browdy & Neimark (48)
Washington DC
Patent Issues 2001 = 570
Percentage change 00-01 = -1.9%
Registered Attorneys = 6

Anderson Kill & Olick (192)
Washington DC
http://www.andersonkill.com/index.asp
Patent Issues 2001 = 109
Percentage change 00-01 = 6.9%
Registered Attorneys = 5

I hope this will help you. If not, please clarify.

USEFUL KEYWORDS
patent firms
Virginia patent firms
Washington DC patent firms

Thanks a lot.

Sincerely,
leader-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by aaz-ga on 25 Aug 2003 23:32 PDT

Thanks for the efforts but I am afraid I don't consider it an
appropriate answer. I suggest that you read my question again please.
Pl see my comments in CAPITAL below:
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Jordan & Hamburg (114) 
NO URL

Miles & Stockbridge PC (156) 
IT'S LARGE WITH 8 OFFICES NEAR WASHINGTON; IT'S NOT MEDIUM-SIZED.

Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC (160) 
IT'S NOT A PATENT LAW FIRM PER SE. THEY HAVE SEVERAL EXPERTISE GROUPS.


Keil Keil & Weinkauf (69) 
NO URL

Schiif Hardin & Waite (58) 
IT'S NOT A PATENT LAW FIRM PER SE. THEY HAVE SEVERAL EXPERTISE GROUPS.
LARGE, NOT MEDIUM-SIZED.

Browdy & Neimark (48) 
NO URL 

Anderson Kill & Olick (192) 
IT'S NOT A PATENT LAW FIRM PER SE. THEY HAVE SEVERAL EXPERTISE GROUPS.
LARGE, NOT MEDIUM-SIZED.

Bacon & Thomas (24) 
http://www.baconthomas.com/ 
Patent Issues 2001 = 844 
Registered Attorneys = 8 
HOW CAN THERE BE 844 PATENTS IN ONE YEAR WITH MERE 8 ATTORNEYS!?!

Regards

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Clarification of Answer by leader-ga on 26 Aug 2003 06:34 PDT

Thanks for the clarification. I have started working on your question
and will respond in a timely manner. Thanks again.

Sincerely,
leader-ga

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Clarification of Answer by leader-ga on 26 Aug 2003 16:22 PDT

Hello aaz-ga:

First of all, I want to apologize for the mishap. I have tried to be
more careful this time and make sure that the firms meet your
specified criteria and their expertise is in intellectual property.

I hope it will work this time.

Thanks for the clarification request.

Sincerely,
Leader-ga

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The following six firms most closely match your criteria. 


Shanks & Herbert (specializing in Intellectual property)
Alexandria, VA
http://www.ipadvocates.com/main.html
Number of Registered Attorneys = 6
Number of Patents = 98

Larson & Taylor, PLC (specializing in Intellectual property)
Alexandria, VA
http://www.larsontaylor.com/home.htm
Number of Registered Attorneys = 8
Number of Patents = 3604

Nath & Associates (specializing in Intellectual property)
Washington DC
http://www.nathlaw.com/
Number of Patent Attorneys = 6
Number of Patents = 974

Posz & Bethards (specializing in Intellectual property)
Reston, VA 
http://www.poszlaw.com/index.html
Number of Patent Attorneys = 9
Number of Patents = 91

Law offices of Royal W. Craig (specializing in Intellectual property)
Baltimore, MD
http://www.patent-law.org/index.htm
Number of Patent Attorneys = 4
Number of Patents = 99

Roberts Abokhair & Mardula (specializing in Intellectual property)
Reston, VA
http://www.viennapat.com/Default.htm
Number of Patent Attorneys = 11
Number of Patents = 155