The firm recently received top honors at Managing IP’s annual North America Awards in Washington, D.C. Charlie Verhoeven, Co-Chair of the firm’s IP Practice, was recognized as “2012 IP Practitioner of the Year” for his ongoing involvement as lead counsel for Google, Samsung, HTC, and Motorola in smartphone patent litigation against Apple and Microsoft in more than a dozen disputes venued in various district courts and in the ITC. The firm additionally received awards for “Best Patent Litigation Group–West” and “Best ITC Litigation Practice Group.” This past September, the firm opened an office in Washington, D.C., its sixth office in the U.S., to better facilitate representation of clients in Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission and in IP matters on the East Coast.