Christie, Parker & Hale has been litigating intellectual property cases for more than five decades. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other related legal issues are the framework of our practice and the basis of our litigation experience. Arbitration, mediation, and other non-litigation strategies are also used for cost-effective resolutions.

Our litigators have extensive experience in antitrust, bankruptcy, contract, fraud, and complex business litigation. This allows us to effectively assert all applicable legal claims and defenses in litigation related to intellectual property, as well as to handle other types of litigation for our clients.

We have saved clients millions of dollars by avoiding costly and lengthy litigation. The firm creatively employs procedural strategies to precipitate early resolutions whenever this furthers the interest of our clients. We make effective use of procedures - such as summary judgment and bifurcation among others - to attain our clients' objectives quickly and economically. We are aware of no intellectual property firm of our size that has had more success before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in preserving favorable summary judgment dispositions in patent cases. Working cooperatively with our clients, we try to create an early 'settlement moment' and to open effective channels for settlement negotiation with our opponents. We believe that a settlement strategy should be part of any good litigation strategy, and that openness to settlement discussions need not detract from aggressive advocacy in litigation.