What are the top five IP law firms in the Seattle area to work as a biotech patent agent?

I am looking to relocate to the west coast and am investigating Seattle and various California cities. I am a registered patent agent (4 yrs ago) with a BS in biochemistry, and a very strong background in sequence listings and sequence searching. I have worked for an international bioinformatics company. I am currently working as an IP legal assistant for attorneys for a large Boston law firm and thus am quite familiar with patent prosecution. I am looking to do patent work such as sequence listings, sequence searching, sequence analysis, patentability searches (have done those), and patent prosecution.



I am aware Seed is a top firm in this regard.What are the top five IP law firms in the Seattle area to work as a biotech patent agent?
Heller Ehrman White %26amp; McAuliffe (HEWM) in the San Francisco headquarters has a huge IP dept. with many IP attorneys in their other branches (Seattle being one), though not as many. The San Diego branch, though smaller, is made up of a lot of IP attys b/c of the huge biotech boom there. Seattle had more environmental attys than anything (seems to be the trend for the whole state), but still had IP attys there. HEWM is well known as a 1st class firm within all the CA atty's I've talked to, evoking an ooh and ahh about the firm.

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