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Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

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National Rankings
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Metro Rankings

General Information

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Practice Areas
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Individuals recognized in Best Lawyers
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Client Comments
Year founded: 1980
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Overview

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Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is a leading law firm specializing in intellectual property law. We protect and defend our clients’ ideas and inventions, turning them into assets that create value, fuel growth, and secure market position. We provide the full spectrum of intellectual property services, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, agreements, IP litigation, and post-grant proceedings. We are known nationally and worldwide for our expertise in intellectual property law and in today’s cutting edge technology areas. The outstanding legal and technical backgrounds of our people paired with our established network of international associates, allows us to deliver exceptional and cost-effective service to solve our clients’ complex legal issues and support their strategic goals. Our attorneys, patent agents, and technology specialists are trained in the cutting edge of the following technology areas: bioinformatics, biologics and immunotherapies, biotechnology and life sciences, business methods, chemical engineering, chemistry, clean technology, computer hardware, computer software, material sciences, mechanical engineering, medical devices, medical imaging, network infrastructure, optics, pharmaceuticals, robotics, and telecommunications.

With a history of over 40 years and over 30 attorneys, patent agents, and technology specialists, we have developed a broad base of clients from all over the world, including large corporations, universities and research institutions, small high technology start-up companies, independent inventors, as well as venture capitalists.

We are based in Lincoln, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts, but our work does not stop there. Our attorneys work in many jurisdictions and work with foreign associates in other countries.

Firm News

February 1, 2022
Mark Solomon Elected as President of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds and Mary Lou Wakimura Elected as Chair of the Board of Directors
October 5, 2021
LMG Life Sciences Recognizes Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
July 15, 2021
Recognized by IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
February 25, 2021
Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is Recognized in the World Trademark Review 1000

Rankings

Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. is nationally ranked in 2 practice areas and metro ranked in 3 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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National Rankings

Tier 2
Tier 2 for Patent Law
Tier 2 for Trademark Law

Metro Rankings

Boston, MA
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 1 for Trademark Law
Tier 2 for Litigation - Intellectual Property

About Our Clients

Our Clients are from the following Industry Areas -

Highlighted Client Comments

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Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds' (HBSR's) attention to the client relationship is unmatched in my 20+ years of experience working with outside IP counsel. I have worked with HBSR as a client in both the commercial and not-for-profit/higher education settings. The attorneys assigned to each matter have always possessed excellent and appropriate legal and technical backgrounds for the assigned work. The firm is consistently transparent in all communications, transactions and attorney assignments. Importantly, the firm has tailored its administrative functions to meet the client's specific needs with respect to invoicing, payment, client communications, and a host of other administrative technicalities that make life as a client easy. Finally, the attorneys at HBSR have consistently gone above and beyond their typical attorney-client obligations to provide educational sessions to both administrative staff, faculty and students.
Andrew Curtin – Northeastern University
Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds is an excellent and responsive firm on the 128 belt. Has particularly grown expertise in the bio-tech and medical device space.
Patent Law
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds has provided practical, actionable guidance to me on all manner of intellectual property matters and I would recommend them without hesitation. They are responsive, attentive to detail and focused on their clients' goals.
Patent Law
In my 10 or so years of experience as a client with this fine firm, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds' holistic approach to the client relationship has proven tremendously beneficial to both large corporations I have worked for in that time. The attorneys and staff, individually and as an organization, consistently met and then exceed my standard for excellence in patent preparation and prosecution, client relationships from the organizational level to the inventor level, adapting reporting, invoicing, and other important workflows to the specific preferences and needs of the client, and providing additive training across a broad scope of subject matter to client organizational staff and inventors. My relationship with Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has been concurrent with about a dozen law firms in all, usually about 5 at one time. In every instance, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has been the benchmark for excellence in legal representation in the field of intellectual property law.
Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has never disappointed us. They are knowledgeable, responsive, and have prosecuted our patents expeditiously and successfully. We couldn't be happier with their firm!

Rankings

National Rankings

Tier 2
Tier 2 for Patent Law
Tier 2 for Trademark Law

Metro Rankings

Boston, MA
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 1 for Trademark Law
Tier 2 for Litigation - Intellectual Property

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Copyright Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Trade Secrets Law
  • Trademark Law

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

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Client Comments

All client comments represent the opinions of the people who provided them. All potential clients are urged to remember that no two cases are ever completely alike and that the result in one case does not guarantee a similar result in another case.
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Awards

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  • Managing IP 2023 Recommends Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds and Ranks Principal Susan Glovsky as a Patent Star
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds Recognized by IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals in 2023  
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is Recognized in the World Trademark Review 1000 for 2023

  • Recognized by IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals in 2021

     

     

  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is Recognized in the World Trademark Review 1000 in 2021
  • LMG Life Sciences Recognizes Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds and Principal Eric M. Balicky, Ph.D. as a Life Sciences Star in 2021
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds Recognized by IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals in 2022
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is Recognized in the World Trademark Review 1000 in 2022
  • Recognized by IAM Magazine as the top patent firm in New England, and one of the top 10 in the nation, for quality of patents in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotechnology arts
  • IAM Magazine calls Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds "a patent boutique of excellent standing"
  • IAM Magazine Recognizes Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as a Recommended Patent Law Firm
  • IAM Magazine Recognizes Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds for Depth of Technical Expertise
  • IAM Magazine Notes Firm's "Rock-Solid Protection" of Clients' Innovations
  • LMG Life Sciences Highly Recommends Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
  • LMG Life Sciences Continues to Highly Recommend Firm
  • Firm Recognized as a Top Worldwide Trademark Firm / John L. DuPré Listed as a leading Trademark Practitioner
  • World Trademark Review Recognizes Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as a Well-Regarded Boutique
  • Firm Recognized among the "World's Leading Trademark Professionals"

Main Location

Lincoln, MA
55 Old Bedford Road, Suite 200
Lincoln, MA 01773
United States
978-341-0036 Get Directions

Office Locations

Boston, MA
Seaport West
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210
United States
617-607-5900 Get Directions

Management and Personnel

President and Principal
Mark Solomon
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