Women Who Rule

• Author: Irena Royzman - Anne Hassett
• Position: Irena Royzman, PhD, is a partner with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and cochair of the firm's biotechnology practice; she also is a member and director of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA). Anne Hassett is president of the NYIPLA, executive director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School...
• Pages: 52-55

50 LANDSLIDE n March/April 2018

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Women

Who

Rule

By Irena Royzman

and Anne Hassett

W hile women judges are increasingly deciding important and complex high-

stakes patent cases, women lawyers continue to lag behind men as lead

counsel arguing such cases in federal court and in administrative proceedings

at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The disparity is striking: At every level

of the US judiciary, the percentage of women among those judging patent

cases dwarfs the percentage of women who are the lead counsel presenting

them. Here, we collect and present data on the extent to which women make rulings on patent law

compared to the far lesser extent to which they are leading the presentation of these cases.

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