John Allcock is a widely respected patent trial lawyer focused on patent litigation. He has extensive experience handling patent cases through trial, and appeal to the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Allcock brings an extensive jury trial background to his patent litigation specialty (lead counsel in excess of 70 cases tried to juries to verdict), as well as arbitration experience (lead counsel in excess of 100 arbitrations), and extensive experience in court trials, International Trade Commission (ITC) hearings, various forms of alternative dispute resolution, and management of complex litigation.

Regarding his intellectual property experience, Mr. Allcock has tried over 30 patent cases. Some of the notable cases include a $26 million dollar jury verdict in a patent and Semiconductor Chip Act case (Brooktree v. AMD); trial of a semiconductor patent case in the International Trade Commission (Fujitsu v. Samsung); defense of a multiple patent case (Finnigan v. Hewlett-Packard Company ); a finding of infringement and validity and an exclusion order, in a six-patent case (Hewlett-Packard Company v. Gateway ); and multimillion-dollar verdict in a software patent case (Adobe v. Macromedia ).

The respected English research firm Chambers and Partners cites Mr. Allcock in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, ranking him for two areas, Intellectual Property: Patent and International Trade: Intellectual Property. Chambers has described him as him an "excellent litigator" with "wide-ranging trial expertise" and has noted that he "commands widespread respect," is "extraordinarily responsive and has a great deal of international expertise," and "is equally prized for his expertise in court trial and ITC patent litigation cases." Clients, Chambers adds, remark on "his 'engaging, even captivating' litigation style and his 'great ability to make complex patent issues very understandable to the jury.'"

Legal 500 calls Mr. Allcock "an expert trial lawyer that has fantastic court demeanour" and praises him highly for his "prominent reputation." It cites him in three areas of practice, Patent Licensing and Transactional; Patent Litigation: Full Coverage; and Patent Litigation: International Trade Commission.

Mr. Allcock has been named the Best Lawyers' 2011 San Diego Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year. In 2011, the California Daily Journal named Mr. Allcock to its list of Top 75 California IP Litigators. In 2009, the paper named him among California's Top IP Lawyers and in 2008, it named him among California's Top Ten Patent Lawyers. He is listed in the Top 50 San Diego Super Lawyers 2010 and in the Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Commercial Litigation 2010. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, the San Diego Daily Transcript listed him among San Diego County's Top Attorneys, "the peer-selected best and brightest in San Diego's legal arena." In 2006, when the National Law Journal selected DLA Piper to its "Defense Hot List," it identified Mr. Allcock's work in the Hewlett-Packard/Gateway patent litigation as a noteworthy victory. He has also been named a Super Lawyer, as the result of a joint research project by Law & Politics magazine and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Mr. Allcock is a member of DLA Piper's Executive Committee.