The trial team from the Houston-based intellectual property and business litigation firm Alavi Anaipakos performed among the nation’s very best across a range of areas in Patexia Inc.’s recently released 2025 Patent Litigation Intelligence Report.
Alavi Anaipakos emerged among the most active and best-performing firms representing plaintiffs exclusively and overall, earning inclusion among the Top 100 Best Performing and Top 250 Most Active law firms in the U.S.
Patexia is one of the world’s leading intellectual property research and analytics providers in the U.S. and internationally. Its 2025 intelligence report identifies leading lawyers and firms based on a review of nearly 18,000 patent lawsuits in U.S. District Courts during the past five years.
Among the more than 15,000 lawyers reviewed, Alavi Anaipakos co-founder Amir Alavi was named one of the Top 100 Best Performing attorneys for patent trials, and firm associate Ryan Pinckney was named among the Top 250 Most Active patent lawyers in the country.
Highlights of the 2025 Patent Litigation Intelligence Report include:
- Alavi Anaipakos is listed in the top 5 percent of law firms in the U.S. for overall performance and activity based on an analysis covering over 17,000 unique patents.
- Mr. Alavi is in the top 2 percent of nearly 10,000 patent litigators representing plaintiffs based on an analysis of both activity and performance.
- Firm co-founder Demetrios Anaipakos, fellow partners Michael McBride and Masood Anjom, and Mr. Pinckney are noted among the nation’s elite patent litigators based on their activity and performance.
Alavi Anaipakos closed out last year by winning a judgment before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) against media giant Netflix Inc. The favorable ruling dismissed patent challenges filed by Netflix following the firm’s earlier multimillion-dollar patent infringement victory for GoTV Streaming LLC.
Houston-based Alavi Anaipakos is home to high-stakes trial lawyers known for solving complex problems. The firm’s attorneys have handled some of the world’s largest patent infringement disputes and significant commercial cases across various industries, from oil and gas to energy, software, high-tech, financial services, and beyond. Our team members have been in the trenches in marquee legal battles across the nation and the world for nearly 30 years.