Kathi Vidal, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, knows her way around the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Waiting for her would be a new power to shape the tribunal’s patent reviews.
Vidal, a longtime patent litigator and head of Winston & Strawn LLP’s Silicon Valley office, has represented companies in dozens of patent reviews at the PTAB, making arguments for both challengers and patent owners.
That experience could help her chart a course for the administrative tribunal if she is confirmed by the Senate.
Vidal would be the first Senate-confirmed director since the ...