From our firm's inception in 1883 until today, our lawyers have been leaders in all aspects of intellectual property law-as trial lawyers, mediators, counselors, leaders of professional associations, teachers and drafters of ground-breaking legislation.

No other law firm has had three presidents of the U.S. delegation to the International Association for the Protection of International Property, as well as three Chairs of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section, or Presidents of the Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Intellectual Property Law Association and the Lawyers Club of Chicago.

During our history, members of the firm have appeared in trial and appellate courts on behalf our clients in nearly every federal jurisdiction, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and with local counsel in many foreign jurisdictions. As a result, we have been recognized by our peers in the profession as one of the top ten firms in the country, and the leading firm in Chicago, for trademark litigation.

The firm's founder, Frank F. Reed, was a founding member of the law faculty at the University of Chicago. Reed spoke to The Law Club of The City of Chicago in 1895 on "The Laws of Copyright," and in 1898 on "Ancient Trade-Mark Custom and Law." When Edward S. Rogers joined the firm in 1898, he taught trademark law at the University of Michigan Law School and went on to become the primary drafter of the United States Trademark Act of 1946, known as the Lanham Act.

Our name partner, Beverly W. Pattishall (1916-2002), returned to Chicago in 1946, after serving in World War II, and began his long and impressive legal career with the law firm of Rogers & Woodson (now Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP). He served as a U.S. Government Delegate to the Diplomatic Conferences on the International Trademark Registration Treaty between 1970 and 1973. He was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Conference on Industrial Property and Consumer Protection in 1978, and a U.S. Delegate to the Diplomatic Conference on the revision of the Paris Convention in 1981.

Mr. Pattishall had a significant impact on IP law education. He was a founding member of the Adjunct Faculty for the IP-LLM program at John Marshall Law School. In 1966, he began teaching as Adjunct Professor of Trademark, Trade Identity and Unfair Trade Practices Law at Northwestern University School of Law, his alma mater, where he continued to teach Trademark Law until his retirement. He co-authored TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION (LexisNexis Publishing, 6th edition, 2005) and TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION DESKBOOK (LexisNexis Publishing, 3rd edition, 2007), which have become essential reference books for law students and practitioners. In 1997, the "Pattishall Medal for Teaching Excellence" was established through the Brand Names Education Foundation to recognize educators for outstanding instruction in the trademark and trade identity field. In 2001, the "Beverly W. Pattishall Distinguished Lecture in Trademark Law" was established at The John Marshall Law School.