Printable Page

The Webb Law Firm has been helping innovators safeguard their discoveries, advance their technologies, and achieve historic milestones since 1845. Our practice is exclusively intellectual property law, which includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, licensing, and related litigation.

Our clients are multinational Fortune 100 corporations, as well as start-up ventures, in all aspects of technology, including steel, glass, medical devices, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and information technology. Attorneys at The Webb Law Firm are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and have degrees in both the law and the sciences, plus many have extensive experience in the industries in which our clients operate.

The expertise of The Webb Law Firm in both technology and the law results in a true understanding of our clients’ innovative advances and how to protect them.

Practice Areas
Patent Innovation – Patent services for clients as their innovations move from conception to development to commercialization and throughout their market lives

Trademark & Copyright – Domestic and international trademark and copyright protection

Litigation – Full litigation services concerning intellectual property disputes

Business Strategies – Effective intellectual property strategies that are compatible with our clients’ business goals

International – Ongoing, long-term relationships with intellectual property firms all over the world for outgoing and incoming matters

History
The Webb Law Firm dates back to 1845, when William Bakewell became the first attorney to practice patent law west of the Allegheny Mountains. A graduate of Western University of Pennsylvania Law School (now the University of Pittsburgh), he was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. William Bakewell practiced law for 54 years with various partners, including his son Thomas Woodhouse Bakewell, who joined his father’s firm in 1883 after graduating from Rutgers College. The name Bakewell remained as part of the firm’s name until 1925 when the partners adopted their names as the firm’s name. In 1929, William Hess Webb, whose name survives, joined the firm where he practiced law for 68 years and provided leadership until his death in 1997.

Since its inception, The Webb Law Firm has limited its practice to intellectual property law in the United States and foreign countries. Today, the firm’s professionals have academic degrees in a variety of technical disciplines, as well as law, which enables them to handle patent, trademark, and copyright issues and litigation in nearly all technical fields. The firm continues to grow to address the needs of our clients.