Overview
(March 24, 2022, Washington, DC) — The PTAB Bar Association has once again named Steptoe partner Kate Cappaert to its list of the "Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials." Cappaert was previously recognized in the inaugural 2019 listing. The list, released by the association's women's committee as part of a two-year long focus on women practicing before the US Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB), recognizes the fifty most active female practitioners before the PTAB as of 2021 for petitioners, patent owners, and overall.
At Steptoe, Cappaert handles a variety of patent litigation matters, including Section 337 investigations before the US International Trade Commission, patent validity challenges before the PTAB, and patent litigation in district courts. She represents clients in cases involving a wide range of technologies, including consumer electronics and smartphones, cloud and distributed computing systems, pharmaceuticals, and electrical, mechanical, and geophysical technologies.
Read the full list at the PTAB Bar Association.
About Steptoe
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
The diversity of the firm is a critical factor in its success. The majority of Steptoe's nine offices are managed by women; the majority of Steptoe’s practice groups have women as leaders; the firm’s fourteen-person elected compensation committee includes six women; and the firm's nine-person elected executive committee includes three women. The firm's eight-person professional business services leadership is equally diverse, with half the c-suite made up of women, including three women of color, and other leaders who openly identify as LGBTQ+.
