Best Law Firms in Houston, TX for Litigation - Patent

Crain Caton & James is a century-old, full-service law firm based in Houston, Texas, providing transactional counsel, corporate advisory, regulatory guidance, and trial defense services locally, nationally, and internationally.

The firm concentrates its collective legal capabilities across major practice divisions:

• Corporate & Financial: Banking and financial institution compliance, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial real estate development.
• Wealth, Trust, & Fiduciary: Estate planning, complex trust structuring, asset protection, and fiduciary or probate litigation.
• Litigation & Appeals: Commercial litigation, construction disputes, labor and employment conflicts, and comprehensive state and federal appellate practice.
• Regulatory & Technical: Environmental law, toxic tort defense, administrative health and safety (EHS) compliance, OSHA mitigation, and intellectual property (IP) protection, including patent and trademark prosecution.

Founded in 1998, Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP (OBWB) is an intellectual property law firm with a global presence. With offices in Houston, Austin, Boulder, Paris, Dubai, Hangzhou, Beijing, and Tokyo, we assist clients in protecting and enforcing their intellectual property interests worldwide. The firm prides itself in being one of the most technically and legally proficient IP firms in the world. 

OBWB has expertise in patent and trademark procurement, portfolio management, licensing, acquisition, due diligence, opinions of counsel, litigation, and strategic IP counseling, among other areas. We are recognized as one of the top 50 IP firms in the nation based on the number of patents issued.

We are particularly proud of the broad range of technical skills possessed by our firm’s professionals. One of the many unique and forward-looking aspects of the firm’s practice is the firm’s Patent Agent Program - designed to enhance our team's technical skill level while providing first-rate and cost-effective legal services.

We represent clients throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. We file patent applications in every industrialized country in the world, and conduct business in a variety of languages, including: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Arabic.

At OBWB, no partner “owns” a client. Through open discussion with each client, an appropriate team is assembled within the firm based upon experience and technical backgrounds to meet the needs of the client in each particular matter. This team approach ensures we provide the highest level of quality work and customer service to each of our clients.