Martin J. Black
Partner | Philadelphia
Martin J. Black
  • Band 1 Intellectual Property - Chambers USA (2022 - 2025)
  • 2025 Outstanding Litigator of the Year: Pennsylvania - Managing Intellectual Property (2025 - 8th win)
  • Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal), Dispute Resolution: General commercial disputes and Dispute Resolution: International Litigation – Legal 500 US (2025) 
  • Patent “IP STAR” - Managing Intellectual Property 
  • Routinely listed as a top patent litigator for Pennsylvania and nationwide - IAM Patent 1000 (2021-2025)
  • Top IP lawyer -  WIPR Leaders guide by World IP Review (2024)
  • Routinely named an IAM Strategy 300 Global Leader as well as an IAM Strategy 300 “World’s Leading IP Strategists”
  • Winner in the Professional Excellence Awards in the “Distinguished Leader” category - The Legal Intelligencer (2020)
  • Routinely named a “Life Sciences Star” -  LMG Life Sciences
  • Short-listed for "Hatch- Waxman Litigator of the Year"- LMG Life Sciences (2019)
  • "Litigation Star" - Benchmark Litigation
  • MVP for intellectual property - Law360 (2017)
  • Best of the Bar - Philadelphia Business Journal in its Best of the Bar Awards (2017)
  • Drug Discovery, Funding, Licensing and Litigating Intellectual Property Disputes — 2025 Life Sciences Day, Philadelphia, PA (March 5, 2025)
  • Views From the Bench — LSI's Patent Claim Construction Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (October 10, 2007)
  • Lessons Learned from Big Pharma: Minimizing Risk at Each Stage of a Therapeutic Product's Life Cycle — Millbrae, CA (January 1, 2007)
  • Hot Topics in Copyright and Right of Publicity Law — Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (PVLA) Educational Forum on Intellectual Property, Philadelphia, PA (December 7, 2001)
  • Parody and Fair Use Under Copyright, Trademark, and Right of Publicity Law — Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (PVLA) Educational Forum on Intellectual Property, Philadelphia, PA (December 7, 2001)
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    • University of Pennsylvania, B.S.E., 1985, cum laude, Benjamin Franklin Scholar
    • The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1988, with Honors
    • Pennsylvania
    • Supreme Court of New Jersey
    • Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    • United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Honorable Edward N. Cahn