Janine Carlan Honored Among 2025 ‘Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials’

ArentFox Schiff is proud to announce that IP Litigation Practice Co-Leader Janine Carlan has been recognized in the PTAB Bar Association’s “Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials” list, which acknowledges the 50 most active female practitioners before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2024.

Janine is a patent litigator with more than 25 years representing clients in bench and jury trials throughout the United States. She has first-chaired numerous federal district court cases, has argued Federal Circuit appeals, and has been involved in patent cases covering diverse areas of technology. Janine has been recognized by IAM Patent 1000 and the Legal 500. She was previously recognized as a “Top 50 Women” by the PTAB Bar Association in 2019.

ArentFox Schiff was also featured in the “Women at the PTAB” report, ranking among the top 20 firms at which women attorneys constitute at least 51% of total attorney appearances in post-grant proceedings from September 2012 to December 2024.

The PTAB Bar Association, a voluntary organization with over 700 members from private and corporate practice, represents a diverse range of stakeholders involved in PTAB proceedings and patent law. It is dedicated to ensuring the just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of PTAB proceedings while fostering dialogue between the bar community, the PTAB, and other stakeholders.

The “Women at the PTAB” report analyzes statistics for women practitioners appearing in PTAB trials. The report compares statistics for patent owners vs. petitioners, different technical fields, and the top 100 law firms and companies participating in PTAB proceedings. All statistics in the “Women at the PTAB” report were generated using an electronic database search that automatically identifies the gender of attorneys through an algorithm.

A copy of the complete list and the full report can be found here.  

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