Riverside Law

What Riverside Law does

Riverside Law LLP is a private intellectual property law firm founded in 2010 and headquartered at 175 Strafford Avenue in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The firm operates a tri-state platform with additional offices in Marlton, New Jersey and Albany, New York, and is structured as a limited liability partnership with seven partners, two of counsel, ten patent agents, five scientific advisors, and approximately eleven paralegal and administrative staff. The firm markets itself under the registered "Riverside Law" word mark and the "Protecting your best ideas" slogan mark. Its registered practice areas are patents, trademarks, and copyrights, served under the legal entity Riverside Law LLP, a Pennsylvania-domiciled LLP.

The firm's core services are patent application drafting and prosecution (including US and worldwide filing strategy, post-grant proceedings, due diligence, and portfolio management), trademark services (US federal registration and international protection of names, logos, icons, and slogans, with ongoing strategy support to client marketing and branding teams), and copyright services (protection of software, art, literature, video, and databases, including DMCA registered agent services). Service delivery is team-based: clients engage the full team of attorneys, patent agents, and scientific advisors rather than a single practitioner. Professional staff hold advanced degrees (predominantly Ph.D.s and master's) in life sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, and computer engineering from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, USC, Temple, Cornell, Duke, and Rensselaer, with prior industry experience at DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, and large medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

Riverside Law's commercial model is professional services billing on a largely flat-fee structure with no charges for attorney calls or emails, designed to keep client costs predictable and to encourage ongoing communication. The firm's go-to-market is direct engagement by partners and agents with two horizontal customer segments: (1) startups, small businesses, and individuals seeking initial patent, trademark, or copyright strategy, and (2) established corporations and institutions, including Fortune 100 companies, with international IP portfolios requiring large-scale portfolio management, worldwide patent protection, and due diligence. Distribution is entirely direct, supported by a content-led firm website with practice-area pages and individual attorney profiles; no intermediary, referral, or channel-partner model is used. The firm operates in the United States with a claimed global patent-protection footprint for international matters.

Name

Riverside Law

Legal name

Riverside Law LLP

Website

https://riversidelaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Riverside Law is a Pennsylvania-headquartered intellectual property law firm providing patent, trademark, and copyright services to a bimodal client base spanning early-stage startups and individuals through Fortune 100 multinationals, delivered by a team of partners, patent agents, and scientific advisors across offices in PA, NJ, and NY.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Intellectual Property Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110), All Other Legal Services (541199)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate & Commercial Law (BPAHAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services (BPAHALAG)

Keywords

• Intellectual property law
• Patent prosecution
• Trademark registration
• Copyright protection
• IP portfolio management

Headquarters

HQ city

Wayne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Intellectual Property: Riverside Law provides intellectual property legal services including patent application drafting and prosecution, trademark registration and portfolio management, and copyright protection. They operate on a largely flat fee billing model to keep costs predictable and do not charge for calls or emails to encourage open communication between attorney and client.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Riverside Law is an intellectual property law firm that provides patent application drafting and prosecution, trademark portfolio building and registration (US federal and international), and copyright protection for creative works. The firm serves startups, small businesses, corporations, and institutions through a team-based model where clients access attorneys, patent agents, and scientific advisors with advanced technical degrees in life sciences, engineering, and technology. Services are delivered on a largely flat-fee billing basis with no charges for calls or emails to encourage open attorney-client communication.

Product overview

Riverside Law is an intellectual property law firm providing a unified suite of legal services centered on protecting clients' innovations and creative works. The firm offers three core practice areas: Patent Services (covering application drafting, prosecution, and portfolio management across technology domains), Trademark Services (building and maintaining trademark portfolios through US and international registration), and Copyright Services (protecting creative works including software and offering DMCA registered agent services). The firm differentiates through a team-based approach where clients access attorneys, patent agents, and scientific advisors with backgrounds in life sciences, engineering, and other technical fields. Services are billed using a largely flat-fee model with open communication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Patent Services Patent application drafting and prosecution in a wide range of technology areas, including U.S. and worldwide patent protection strategies, post-grant proceedings, due diligence, and patent portfolio management. Targeted at startups, small businesses, corporations, and institutions that need patent protection for proprietary technologies.
• Trademark Services Building trademark portfolios through US federal trademark registration and international protection, covering names, logos, icons, and slogans, with ongoing strategy support for client branding and marketing teams. Targeted at businesses and individuals seeking comprehensive trademark protection.
• Copyright Services Protecting creative works including software, art, literature, images, videos, databases, and books, with DMCA registered agent services for hosting user-generated content. Targeted at businesses and individuals seeking copyright protection as a standalone service or as part of a broader IP protection strategy.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Fish & Richardson: Largest IP-focused law firm in the United States with deep patent prosecution and litigation practices across all major technology areas. Directly comparable to Riverside Law in patent prosecution focus, but at vastly greater scale (1,400+ professionals vs. ~24) and with full litigation capabilities Riverside lacks.
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney: Full-service AmLaw firm with significant IP practice group in Pennsylvania and across the mid-Atlantic. Competes with Riverside for Northeast IP work, but offers broader corporate, litigation, and regulatory capabilities that Riverside does not.
• Foley & Lardner: AmLaw 200 firm with substantial IP practice including patent prosecution, IP litigation, and trademark portfolio management. Competes with Riverside for tech and life sciences clients, but at much larger scale and with full-service business law capabilities.

Direct peers

• Finnegan: Premier IP-only law firm with strong patent prosecution bench across electrical, chemical, biotech, and software technologies. Most comparable to Riverside Law in service mix (patents, trademarks, copyright) and scientific bench, though Finnegan is national with 400+ attorneys.
• Knobbe Martens: IP-only boutique with deep technical bench spanning electrical, mechanical, chemical, and biotech technologies. Closely comparable to Riverside Law's technical-Ph.D.-heavy model, with similar life sciences and engineering specialization but significantly larger footprint (300+ attorneys).
• Oblon: IP-focused boutique with strong technical bench in chemistry, biotech, pharma, and software patent prosecution. Comparable to Riverside in technical depth and patent prosecution emphasis, with a comparable flat-fee culture but at larger scale.
• Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel: Philadelphia-based IP boutique serving PA, NJ, DE, and NY clients with patent prosecution, trademark, and copyright practices. The closest geographic and size peer to Riverside Law — similar technical bench and Northeast focus, with a slightly larger team.
• RatnerPrestia: Pennsylvania-based IP boutique with patent prosecution, trademark, and licensing practices serving tech, life sciences, and consumer products clients. Direct geographic and practice-area peer to Riverside Law, with similar size and technical bench.
• Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox: DC-based IP boutique specializing in patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, and IP litigation for tech and life sciences clients. Highly comparable to Riverside's patent prosecution focus, with significantly larger technical bench.

Regional players

• Wood Herron & Evans: Cincinnati-based IP boutique with patent, trademark, and copyright practices serving Midwest tech and consumer products clients. Comparable in service mix and boutique structure to Riverside Law, though operating in a different geographic market with limited East Coast overlap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles25 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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