Graves & Shaw LLP

The Firm

The Firm

Our Approach

We founded Graves & Shaw to provide high-end intellectual property and business litigation services to companies and individuals in high stakes litigation.  We represent plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trademark and unfair competition, antitrust, and complex business litigation.

We are aggressive, creative, and efficient.  We work hard to obtain the best possible result in all of our cases.  We do not waste your money and our time on discovery and motion practice of little or no value.  We focus on obtaining the evidence most relevant to your case and using it to persuade the judge or jury at trial. 

Our Approach

We founded Graves & Shaw to provide high-end intellectual property and business litigation services to companies and individuals in high stakes litigation.  We represent plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trademark and unfair competition, antitrust, and complex business litigation.

We are aggressive, creative, and efficient.  We work hard to obtain the best possible result in all of our cases.  We do not waste your money and our time on discovery and motion practice of little or no value.  We focus on obtaining the evidence most relevant to your case and using it to persuade the judge or jury at trial. 

Practice Areas

Patent Litigation

We represent patent owners as well as companies accused of infringement.  We have notched trial victories in patent cases for plaintiffs and defendants, generating jury verdicts for our clients obtaining or avoiding judgments in an amount well in excess of $300 million.  Our litigation experience covers the full scope of technical fields, including telecommunications, network security, web-hosting, medical devices, image capture, digital signature and encryption technologies, nano-scale manufacturing, and biotech, among others.

Complex Business Litigation

We represent plaintiffs and defendants involved in complex business cases, including those involving contract disputes, fraud, unfair competition, antitrust, and trade secret misappropriation.  We have secured judgments of over $20 million for our clients in business litigation and have successfully defended those judgments on appeal. 

Practice Areas

Patent Litigation

We represent patent owners as well as companies accused of infringement.  We have notched trial victories in patent cases for plaintiffs and defendants, generating jury verdicts for our clients obtaining or avoiding judgments in an amount well in excess of $300 million.  Our litigation experience covers the full scope of technical fields, including telecommunications, network security, web-hosting, medical devices, image capture, digital signature and encryption technologies, nano-scale manufacturing, and biotech, among others.

Complex Business Litigation

We represent plaintiffs and defendants involved in complex business cases, including those involving contract disputes, fraud, unfair competition, antitrust, and trade secret misappropriation.  We have secured judgments of over $20 million for our clients in business litigation and have successfully defended those judgments on appeal. 

Our Fees

We believe that litigation counsel should share in the risk of failure as well as the rewards of success.  As a result, we welcome opportunities to represent clients on the basis of contingency, hybrid, and other unconventional fee structures. 

Our Fees

We believe that litigation counsel should share in the risk of failure as well as the rewards of success.  As a result, we welcome opportunities to represent clients on the basis of contingency, hybrid, and other unconventional fee structures.