Harness, Dickey & Pierce


Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. is a law firm headquartered in Troy, Michigan. Harness Dickey focuses exclusively on intellectual property. The firm provides legal services in all areas of patents, trademarks, and copyrights — including preparation and prosecution, licensing, litigation, and portfolio management services — as well as handling anti-counterfeiting, international rights, due diligence, and trade secret matters.
Today, the firm qualifies as one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States.

History

Harness Dickey was established in 1921 as a result of Detroit’s growing automotive industry. The firm's founder, J. King Harness, formerly served as the patent department leader for the Ford Motor Company and later became the Chief Patent Counsel to what is now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. In 1925, Art Dickey and Hodgson Pierce joined the firm as partners.
The firm's office was originally located within the General Motors Building. In the mid-1960s, the firm moved to the Fisher Building, followed by a move to Birmingham in 1973. The firm moved to its current office in Troy, Michigan, in the early 1990s.
Since then, the firm has opened three offices outside of Michigan: the firm's Clayton, Missouri office opened in 2000; the Reston, Virginia office opened in 2001; and the firm's Frisco, Texas office opened in 2015.
Today, the firm serves clients operating in a range of industries, including: aerospace; automotive; chemistry and materials science; clean and green technology; consumer electronics; consumer products; energy production and delivery; image processing; manufacturing; mechanical and electromechanical; medical devices; pharmaceutical and biotechnology; semiconductors; software, computers, and information technology; and telecommunications and wireless technology.

Rankings

In 2018, Harness Dickey obtained more than 3,000 U.S. utility patents for its clients, and was ranked sixth among the nation’s top law firms in an article published by Law360. The same news source also ranked Harness Dickey as the 7th largest IP law firm in the U.S. based on the total number of attorneys.
Harness Dickey has also received accolades from U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in the form of a National Tier 1 Ranking for Trademark Law and several Metropolitan Tier 1 Rankings for Patent Law.
In 2019, legal analytics firm Juristat ranked Harness Dickey among the top 5 U.S Law firms for overcoming Alice rejections.

Office Locations

While Harness Dickey conducts most of its business at a global level, its four physical offices are located in the United States.
The following is a list of Harness Dickey areas of practice, as listed on its website.