Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, the third-largest firm in Portland, Oregon, but with offices along the West Coast, announced Thursday its acquisition of local intellectual property shop Marger Johnson.

All seven lawyers from Marger Johnson will join Miller Nash's IP practice team on July 1. Miller Nash has been around since 1873, but the firm has currently constructed came to be in 2014, when Seattle-based Graham & Dunn merged with Portland-based Miller Nash, forming a Pacific Northwest legal powerhouse.

“We have a number of clients in all the markets that we work in on the West Coast that have patent needs,” said Miller Nash managing partner Kieran Curley, whose firm has offices in Long Beach, California; Portland; Seattle; and Vancouver. “Marger Johnson group is a very highly respected, well-regarded group of IP lawyers with particular expertise in patent, and it is really responsive to our clients and to the market we operate in.”