The placement of Mike Bettinger with Sidley in San Francisco. Bettinger was a partner at K&L Gates and the firm’s national lead trial counsel for patent cases in U.S. District Courts and the International Trade Commission. Bettinger has tried 21 cases to verdict and has been widely acclaimed as one of the nation’s top patent trial lawyers. He is ranked by Chambers USA and was selected by the National Law Journal as one of 20 “Hot List” Intellectual Property practices in the U.S.