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Coats & Bennett PLLC

United States 2025
5
Metro Rankings
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Practice Areas
4
Individuals recognized in Best Lawyers
4
Client Comments
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Overview

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Coats & Bennett, PLLC, is a full-service intellectual property law firm with extensive experience across a wide range of technologies and businesses. Our areas of practice include patent application preparation and prosecution, trademarks, intellectual property and commercial litigation, copyrights, licensing, trade secrets, internet and domain name disputes. With a large team of attorneys with varied professional backgrounds, particularly in electrical engineering, computer science and mechanical engineering, we are well-positioned to help the brightest minds secure their ideas, products and creative expressions in a rapidly changing, competitive marketplace.​

Rankings

Coats & Bennett PLLC is metro ranked in 5 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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Metro Rankings

Raleigh
Tier 1 for Litigation - Intellectual Property
Tier 1 for Litigation - Patent
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 3 for Appellate Practice
Tier 3 for Commercial Litigation

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Regional Rankings

Raleigh
Tier 1 for Litigation - Intellectual Property
Tier 1 for Litigation - Patent
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 3 for Appellate Practice
Tier 3 for Commercial Litigation

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Appellate Practice
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Copyright Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Patent Law
  • Trade Secrets Law
  • Trademark Law

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

Coats & Bennett PLLC has 4 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made Coats & Bennett PLLC eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings. For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards. Read more about our Best Lawyers process here.
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Client Comments

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Demographics

Partners
Male: 7
Hispanic / Latinx: 1
White / Caucasian: 6
Of Counsel (but not partners)
Male: 2
White / Caucasian: 2
Associates
Female: 2
Black / African American: 1
White / Caucasian: 1

Office Locations

Cary, NC
1400 Crescent Green, Suite 300
Cary, NC 27518
United States
919-854-1844 Get Directions
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