HOUSTON –  Mar. 8, 2010 – Bracewell & Giuliani LLP was ranked among the top five law firms in the U.S. for energy patents in 2009 by Intellectual Asset Management magazine in connection with PatentRatings. Bracewell ranked fourth based on issuing more than 40 energy patents within the past 12 months, multiplied by the average IPQ® score of those patents. PatentRatings is a market-validated software platform that develops and validates quantitative measures of the patent quality and value. It's IPQ score measures a patent's quality based on statistical methodology with a median of 100. This score is used by intellectual property professionals, investors and corporate strategic planners to identify the value and economic return of certain patents.

Intellectual Asset Management magazine was launched to address the need for organizations to maximize the value of their intellectual property and other intangibles and to examine the strategies they can put in place to do this.

Bracewell's intellectual property attorneys have successfully patented innovations in a wide variety of energy technologies, including oilfield services and equipment, chemicals, alternative energy, seismic technologies, pipeline technologies, and power generation technologies, and also have successfully patented various other technologies including computer hardware and software, semiconductors, electronics, fuel systems, engines, medical devices, and the mechanical arts. This industry knowledge and the practical training in energy, chemical, mechanical, electrical, electronic and life science technologies enable the firm to add value for intellectual property protection to virtually all of a clients’ products and processes.