General Information

Year founded: 1980
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Overview

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Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is among New England's largest law firms devoted to the practice of intellectual property law. The firm specializes in patents, trademarks, intellectual property litigation, copyrights, licensing, due diligence, opinions, trade secrets, and intellectual property counseling. The firm's legal staff provides comprehensive intellectual property expertise in a wide range of technical areas, such as biotechnology, chemistry, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, physics, optics, nanotechnology, and electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering.

With a history of over 40 years, our attorneys, patent agents, and technology specialists have developed a broad base of clients from all over the world, including large corporations, universities and research institutions, small high technology start-up companies, independent inventors, as well as venture capitalists.

We are based in Lincoln, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts, but our work does not stop there. Our attorneys work in many jurisdictions and work with foreign associates in other countries.

Rankings

Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. is nationally ranked in 2 practice areas and metro ranked in 3 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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National Rankings

Tier 2
Tier 2 for Patent Law
Tier 2 for Trademark Law

Metro Rankings

Boston
Tier 1 for Litigation - Intellectual Property
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 1 for Trademark Law

About Our Clients

Our clients appreciate a high quality of work in a timely fashion. We pride ourselves on providing expert services with a strategic approach to advance our clients’ business goals.

Our expertise in the full spectrum of Intellectual Property services, including patents, design patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, agreements, counseling and IP disputes, along with the scientific and technical knowledge of our staff allows us to deliver exceptional service while solving complex legal issues. Our attorneys, patent agents, and technology specialists are trained in the cutting edge of the following technology areas:

Highlighted Client Comments

All client comments represent the opinions of the people who provided them. All potential clients are urged to remember that no two cases are ever completely alike and that the result in one case does not guarantee a similar result in another case.
Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds' (HBSR's) attention to the client relationship is unmatched in my 20+ years of experience working with outside IP counsel. I have worked with HBSR as a client in both the commercial and not-for-profit/higher education settings. The attorneys assigned to each matter have always possessed excellent and appropriate legal and technical backgrounds for the assigned work. The firm is consistently transparent in all communications, transactions and attorney assignments. Importantly, the firm has tailored its administrative functions to meet the client's specific needs with respect to invoicing, payment, client communications, and a host of other administrative technicalities that make life as a client easy. Finally, the attorneys at HBSR have consistently gone above and beyond their typical attorney-client obligations to provide educational sessions to both administrative staff, faculty and students.
Andrew Curtin – Northeastern University
Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds is an excellent and responsive firm on the 128 belt. Has particularly grown expertise in the bio-tech and medical device space.
Patent Law
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds has provided practical, actionable guidance to me on all manner of intellectual property matters and I would recommend them without hesitation. They are responsive, attentive to detail and focused on their clients' goals.
Patent Law
In my 10 or so years of experience as a client with this fine firm, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds' holistic approach to the client relationship has proven tremendously beneficial to both large corporations I have worked for in that time. The attorneys and staff, individually and as an organization, consistently met and then exceed my standard for excellence in patent preparation and prosecution, client relationships from the organizational level to the inventor level, adapting reporting, invoicing, and other important workflows to the specific preferences and needs of the client, and providing additive training across a broad scope of subject matter to client organizational staff and inventors. My relationship with Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has been concurrent with about a dozen law firms in all, usually about 5 at one time. In every instance, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has been the benchmark for excellence in legal representation in the field of intellectual property law.
Patent Law
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds has never disappointed us. They are knowledgeable, responsive, and have prosecuted our patents expeditiously and successfully. We couldn't be happier with their firm!

Rankings

National Rankings

Tier 2
Tier 2 for Patent Law
Tier 2 for Trademark Law

Regional Rankings

Boston
Tier 1 for Litigation - Intellectual Property
Tier 1 for Patent Law
Tier 1 for Trademark Law

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.
  • Copyright Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Trade Secrets Law
  • Trademark Law

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. has 13 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 Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. 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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Awards

Awards are self-reported by firms and are not verified by the Best Law Firms rankings.
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds has been recognized by IAM Patent 1000 since 2021 as a top patent firm in New England for quality patent prosecution services.
  • World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, the world’s leading review of trademark professionals, recognized Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds in 2024 in the Silver category for the thirteenth year. 
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds has received top-tier rankings by LMG Life Sciences since 2020 for Patent Prosecution and Patent Strategy & Management.
  • Managing IP Recommends Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds in 2024 for Patent Prosecution, both nationally and in Massachusetts. Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds has been recognized by Managing IP for its Patent Prosecution expertise since 2021.
  • Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds was recognized as a Top Performing Firm in the 2024 PTAB Intelligence Reports, released by Patexia.

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Management and Personnel

Principal & Chair of the Board of Directors
Mary Lou Wakimura
President and Principal
Mark Solomon
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