Louis W. Tompros

Louis W. Tompros

recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020
Awarded Practice Areas
Appellate Practice Litigation - Intellectual Property Litigation - Patent
Awarded Practice Areas
Appellate Practice Litigation - Intellectual Property Litigation - Patent
Works at
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

105 Best Lawyers awards

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Biography

Louis Tompros is an experienced first-chair trial and appellate litigator. He makes the fast-moving and legally complicated field of intellectual property understandable for juries and judges. He has handled the most challenging patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, publicity, and defamation matters at trial and on appeal, for high profile clients in technology, entertainment, artificial intelligence, and alternative energy, and he has been hailed as a "prizefighter" in the world of intellectual property litigation. He has successfully tried numerous intellectual property cases to verdict as lead trial counsel, has successfully argued multiple appeals before federal circuit courts, and teaches both Patent Law and Trial Advocacy at Harvard, where he holds the title of Hieken Lecturer in Patent Law.
Works at
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

105 Best Lawyers awards

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP logo

Locations

Education

  • Harvard University, J.D., graduated 2003
  • Yale University, BA, English Language and Literature, graduated 2000

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar Association

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Appellate Practice
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Patent Law
  • Trademark Law

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