October 07, 2025 | 1 minute read

SEATTLE Bracewell LLP counsel Patrick J. Connolly has been named a 2025 Rising Star in Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars.

Resident in Bracewell’s Seattle office, Connolly focuses on patent litigation and adversarial intellectual property matters in federal district courts, before the US International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the US Patent and Trademark Office. He also has extensive experience in patent portfolio development and management, as well as standard essential patent analysis for patent licensing pools in several technology spaces.

For more than 30 years, Managing Intellectual Property’s IP Stars, part of the Legal Benchmarking Group, has ranked leading intellectual property firms and practitioners across six practice areas in over 70 jurisdictions.