Fenwick is honored to have received multiple recognitions at the 2026 Managing Intellectual Property (Managing IP) Americas Awards, which honors firms, individuals, and companies behind the most innovative and challenging IP work of the past year. The firm notably took home the program's inaugural U.S. Firm of the Year award, considered the highest U.S. distinction for overall excellence across IP disciplines.
Fenwick also received U.S. Firm of the Year honors for Patent Prosecution, Trademark Disputes, and IP Transactions, and patent litigation co‑lead Saina Shamilov was named ITC Practitioner of the Year. In addition, pivotal decisions in Lashify v. ITC and Yuga Labs v. Ripps earned two Fenwick matters Impact Case of the Year recognitions.
Lashify, which Shamilov co-led, upended decades of U.S. International Trade Commission precedent to expand the number of American companies that can ask the ITC to block imports that infringe their intellectual property. The March 2025 decision was featured in Managing IP and named a top patent decision of 2025 by Law360.
Yuga Labs v. Ripps, led by trademark litigation lead Eric Ball, addressed unsettled questions at the intersection of trademark law and emerging digital markets. In that case, named one of the top trademark decisions by Law360, the Ninth Circuit held for the first time that non‑fungible tokens can qualify as trademarks, offering important guidance for brand owners operating in Web3.
Across the Americas Awards, Fenwick was shortlisted for the U.S. Firm of the Year for Trademark Prosecution and for ITC, as well as West Coast designations for Copyright, Patent Disputes, Patent Prosecution, Trademark Disputes, and Trademark Prosecution.
See the full list of 2026 Americas Awards winners and shortlists on Managing IP’s website.