Jennifer Swize is an experienced appellate advocate, with a particular focus on patent appeals before the Federal Circuit. Jennifer regularly leads, briefs, and argues Federal Circuit appeals. Her experience includes a wide variety of patent issues and doctrines, as well as administrative law and other interdisciplinary areas. She has handled appeals arising from jury trials, Hatch-Waxman bench trials, summary judgment, and Patent Office proceedings including IPRs (inter partes reviews) and PGRs (post-grant reviews), with a breadth of experience in all of the critical stages of patent cases, from standing and jurisdiction to claim construction to infringement, validity, and enforceability, to damages and other remedies. Her work spans industries and products, including extensive experience in pharmaceuticals, biologics, and high-tech fields. Jennifer's practice also includes Supreme Court patent cases.
Jennifer leverages her patent and appellate experience at courts and agencies of first instance. She is regularly embedded on trial teams and on the ground for trials, where she contributes to strategy and dispositive and other critical motions and issues.
Jennifer is a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association's Rules Committee, and she recently co-moderated a panel on the Federal Circuit's latest rule amendments. She is also actively involved in Firm recruiting and mentoring, and she serves on the Firm's Women in IP Committee and on the Washington Office Recruiting Committee. She is actively engaged in pro bono matters.
- University of Virginia (J.D. 2002; Order of the Coif; James C. Slaughter Honor Award to an outstanding graduating student; Roger and Madeleine Traynor Prize for writing); University of Notre Dame (B.A. in History with high honors 1993; Phi Beta Kappa)
- Maryland and District of Columbia
- Law Clerk: to the Honorable José A. Cabranes, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (2003-2004) and to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit (2002-2003)