Recognition

Lee & Hayes provides industry leading counsel to global companies. Our work protecting and commercializing technology innovations and investments for clients has won national attention. Here's what others are saying about us:

• In its March/April 2010 issue of Intellectual Asset Magazine Lee & Hayes  was recognized as being the top rated law firm overall for securing the highest quality patents.  The IAM issue, with a cover title “Kings of Quality”,  features an article titled “Counting on Quality” that assessed the overall quality of the patents in four technology areas: healthcare, information technology, consumer electronics, and industrials.  Lee & Hayes finished #1 in IT.  But also and more significantly, L&H finished #1 Overall!



• In the December 2009/January 2010 issue of IP Law & Business, Lee & Hayes was ranked as one of the top law firms that corporations turn to for patent prosecution. 



• IP Today ranks Lee & Hayes #1 for its Innovation Cycle Time™ and 7th overall on the Patent Scorecard™ in 2009



• IP Law & Business lists Lee & Hayes as a "Law Firm on the Cutting Edge" in the category of Patent Prosecution in 2008. Lee & Hayes comes in second behind Fish & Richardson.  Only 25 law firms are listed internationally as "this year's go-to patent prosecution firms for the world's most forward-thinking companies."



• Corporate Counsel magazine recognized Lee & Hayes as a recipient of premium work from the Boeing Company, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft in a 2007 survey of the Fortune 100
  
  
• American Lawyer ranked Lee & Hayes 1st for prosecuting the highest quality computer/software patents
  
  
• Corporate Counsel magazine recognized Lee & Hayes as a “Go-To” IP firm, named by Microsoft in a survey of the top 250 corporations in America
  
  
• IP Law & Business magazine recognized Lee & Hayes as one of eight IP firms named by Hewlett-Packard as its primary IP counsel in a survey of the world's largest 100 corporations