Arnold & Porter was honored with two awards at theManaging IPAmericas Awards, which recognize firms' outstanding intellectual property achievements over the past year. The firm received an Impact Case of the Year award, was named Copyright Firm of the Year (West), and was shortlisted in several regional, national, and individual categories.
Arnold & Porter earned an Impact Case of the Year award for its work inBartz v. Anthropic, defending against copyright infringement claims brought by a class of book authors. The Arnold & Porter team, led by Doug Winthrop and Joe Farris, secured a favorable ruling that "the company's use of purchased and scanned books for AI training constituted fair use — the first such ruling by a U.S. court on generative AI model training."
Arnold & Porter's recognition as Copyright Firm of the Year (West) reflects the firm's success in the Anthropic case and its record of handling complex, high-stakes cases across jurisdictions, advising clients on all aspects of copyright law, and protecting their legal and financial interests worldwide.
Managing IPAmericas Awards 2026 also named the firm and the following partners as finalists in these categories:
- United States – National: Firm of the Year: Copyright
- United States – Regional – Northeast: Firm of the Year: Trademark Disputes
- United States – Regional – Northeast: Firm of the Year: Trademark Prosecution
- United States: Practitioner of the Year (IP Transactions): Thomas A. Magnani
- United States: Trademark Prosecutor of the Year – Northeast: Paul Llewellyn
- United States: Copyright Practitioner of the Year – West: Douglas Winthrop
- United States: Patent Litigator of the Year – DC Metro: Matthew Wolf