Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Lori Gordon joined the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation practice as a partner, resident in the Washington, DC office.
"The Patent Trial and Appeal Board or PTAB, has become an important forum for IP litigation disputes," said Elaine Blais, co-chair of Goodwin's Intellectual Property Litigation practice. "Leveraging Lori's distinctive expertise and industry reputation as a PTAB specialist, alongside our exceptional platform, we are poised to become an unparalleled destination for excellence in PTAB proceedings. We are thrilled to welcome Lori to Goodwin."
Lori's intellectual property practice focuses intensively on inter partes matters, including contested case proceedings in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Her deep experience includes more than 260 PTAB trials. She has been a leader in PTAB trials since their inception in 2012 and participated in some of the very first such trials. Lori represents clients in a broad range of industries, including data communications, semiconductor devices and fabrication, data security, machine learning, and electronic commerce. She has been recognized by the PTAB Bar Association as the top woman litigator since the PTAB's founding based on number of trials.
"Goodwin's global reach combined with the depth of technical and legal experience of the intellectual property team provides an incredible foundation for PTAB litigation work," said Lori Gordon. "I am very excited to be working in such a dynamic environment."
Goodwin's Intellectual Property Litigation practice handles a wide range of IP litigation matters for technology, life sciences, private equity and financial services companies, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing disputes. The practice has been named Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Year by Law360 on five separate occasions. The firm's intellectual property lawyers are consistently recognized for excellence by leading publications, including Chambers, U.S. News — Best Lawyers, Managing Intellectual Property, IAM Patent 1000, LMG Life Sciences, Managing IP and DocketNavigator.
Goodwin is also regularly recognized among the top twenty firms appearing most often in PTAB proceedings with women lawyers making up at least half the total attorney appearances.