W|N's Rick Nydegger Receives National & International Recognition

W|N's Rick Nydegger was recently selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers In America ® and in the 2010 edition of The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers. Because inclusion in these listings is based on exhaustive national and international peer review, and no fee or purchase is required for these listings, inclusion in them is considered to be a singular honor.

Mr. Nydegger is one of a distinguished group of attorneys nation wide who have been listed in Best Lawyers for over ten years. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2.5 million confidential evaluations by top attorneys in the country. The Best Lawyers' annual, advertisement-free publication has been described in The American Lawyer as "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers is one of the most widely used and respected international ratings services for lawyers. International Who's Who compiles its listing by distributing questionnaires to leading international firms and corporations, from which a list is compiled of those repeatedly mentioned. Those individuals are then researched through the legal press, periodicals and the internet, and preliminary lists of the recommended lawyers are then circulated for comment among leading firms and corporations. International Who's Who then refines the final listing through telephonic or face-to-face interviews to arrive at its final listing of 555 patent lawyers who it considers to be pre-eminent in the field of patent law.

Mr. Nydegger, W|N's Managing Director and President, commented that "I am deeply honored to have been recognized by my peers as warranting inclusion in such respected listings for our profession."

Based in Salt Lake City, W|N is among the largest firms in Salt Lake, and has earned recognition as one of the top patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation firms in the nation. The firm represents a wide array of clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and related litigation and licensing.