Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
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Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, United States
No. of offices22
No. of attorneys650
Major practice areasIntellectual Property, [1] Construction, Native American, Corporate, and Banking
Date founded1860 (San Francisco, California)
Company type Limited liability partnership
Website www.kilpatricktownsend.com

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is an international law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm has twenty-two [2] offices, including U.S. offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington State, and the District of Columbia, and has presence via international offices in Japan, Beijing, [3] Shanghai, and Sweden. The firm is particularly known [4] for its intellectual property practice. Clients have included Google in litigation related to its Google Print product, [5] and Sony in its suit against 21-year-old hacker George Hotz for jailbreaking the PS3. [6]

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History

In 1997, the firms Kilpatrick & Cody (founded, 1874 in Atlanta), and Petree Stockton (founded 1918 in Winston-Salem), merged to form Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. [7]

On January 1, 2011, Kilpatrick Stockton, [8] and Townsend and Townsend and Crew [9] (founded in 1860) merged to form Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. [10] [11] [12] [13]

In 2011, the firm assisted Sony in its lawsuit against George Hotz and some people associated with the group fail0verflow for "jailbreaking" the PlayStation 3. This included the attempted subpoena of Hotz's webhost to gather information about visitors to the site, as well as attempted subpoenas of YouTube, Twitter, Blogger and PayPal. [14] [15]

Key people

Partners

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has over 250 [16] partners. The firm's most notable partners include the following:

High-profile clients

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