Angela M. Oliver

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Angela M. Oliver — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus and specialty. Oliver is a patent appellate and PTAB practitioner based in Haynes and Boone's Washington, D.C. office, with a practice centered on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, district court patent litigation, and post-grant proceedings at the USPTO. Her published technical areas include wireless communications and computer networks, computer hardware and software, video coding (High Efficiency Video Coding/streaming), medical devices and surgical tools, mechanical sensors (e.g., rotational-motion sensors for automotive use), oil and gas drilling, business methods, and design patents. She also previously prosecuted applications, and her undergraduate background is in bioinformatics and chemistry. Notably, her tracked and reported matters skew toward electronics, networking, video, and mechanical/medical arts rather than pharmaceutical or Hatch-Waxman litigation.

Side preference. Across the 11 tracked appearances the split is close to even — 5 plaintiff-side and 6 defendant-side — and that reflects a genuinely mixed practice rather than an NPE/PAE focus. A large share of the plaintiff-side entries are Unified Patents proceedings (Unified Patents v. Dolby, v. Pedersen, v. Ideahub, and their mirrored appeals), i.e., she is usually acting for a defensive patent aggregator challenging patents as IPR petitioner, not prosecuting infringement claims for a monetization entity. On the defense side she has represented Apple in a multi-patent IPR and appeal campaign brought by Smart Mobile Technologies. The mirrored case pairs in the list (Unified/Dolby, Unified/Pedersen, Unified/Ideahub) mean the plaintiff/defendant counts partly track the same disputes at the PTAB and Federal Circuit.

Firm context. Haynes and Boone accounts for 10 of the 11 tracked appearances; she joined the firm as a summer associate in 2015, practiced there, and became a partner in 2024 (by Law360's account, the first year she was eligible). Before private practice she clerked for Judge Rodney Gilstrap (E.D. Tex.) and then-Chief Judge Sharon Prost (Fed. Cir.). One tracked entry — Centripetal Networks, LLC v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. — lists Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr rather than Haynes and Boone; that is not reflected in her published Haynes and Boone or bar profiles, so it may be a different attorney of the same name or a co-counsel arrangement, and I would confirm before relying on it. Her declared bar admissions are Texas (2016) and the USPTO (2014); an older directory listing showed D.C. admission as pending, so current D.C. status should be verified.

Notable matters and outcomes. Her most frequently cited result is In re SurgiSil, LLP, 14 F.4th 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2021), which she argued: the Federal Circuit reversed the USPTO's rejection of a lip-implant design patent, holding a design claim is limited to the article of manufacture identified in the claim and overturning prior Office precedent. Law360 named it among the biggest patent cases of 2021. She has argued roughly 20 Federal Circuit cases. For Unified Patents she won a March 2025 affirmance invalidating 29 of 31 claims of a Gesture Technology Partners patent; argued the June 2025 DivX, LLC v. Unified Patents appeal upholding PTAB invalidation of an adaptive-bitrate streaming patent; and argued Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, in which the Federal Circuit dismissed Dolby's appeal for lack of Article III standing (June 2025). In the Smart Mobile litigation she represented Apple in appeals from several IPRs on wireless-device patents (including Nos. 24-1289, 24-1419, 24-1607, 24-1623, 25-1090), with results ranging from Rule 36 affirmances to vacatur and remand on claim construction and motivation-to-combine issues. Earlier, as an associate, she worked on Haynes Boone's wins for EagleView Technologies in its patent disputes with Nearmap and others.

PTAB/IPR experience. This is a core part of her practice: she drafts IPR petitions and patent-owner responses, presents PTAB oral argument, and handles appeals from PTAB decisions. She has been a member of the PTAB Bar Association since 2019 and is co-chair of its Trials Committee (2026–2027) and vice chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association's PTAB/TTAB Committee.

Bar/education. J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law, 2016 (magna cum laude; Order of the Coif); B.S.I., Baylor University, 2012. Admitted in Texas (2016) and before the USPTO (2014).