Anna Maria Targowska

Anna M. Targowska — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Targowska is a Chicago-based patent litigator whose practice centers on high-stakes disputes involving electronic and semiconductor devices, including wireless/communications, software, and security technologies, with additional exposure to computer-architecture, chemical, and biotech matters (per Reed Smith and case-data aggregator Ex Parte). Her Reed Smith bio describes work at the district-court and Federal Circuit appellate levels, before the PTAB, and at the ITC. She holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, and her invalidity work is heavily technical.

Side preference. The tracked appearances are all defendant-side: 2 of 2 appearances as counsel for defendants at Reed Smith. That aligns with her public record, which skews toward defending operating companies against NPE assertions — most notably, as lead counsel for smart-home company Fibar USA LLC, she obtained a voluntary dismissal of a patent suit brought by plaintiff Pinek IP LLC in the Northern District of Illinois (2019), a result the firm touted as a complete victory. Firm bios note she has developed strategies "for plaintiffs and defendants alike," so she is not strictly a defense-only practitioner, but the verifiable tracked record is uniformly defendant-side.

Firm context. Targowska is a partner at Reed Smith LLP (since August 2022), where both tracked appearances occurred. Previously she was counsel at Steptoe & Johnson LLP (2020–2022) and, for over a decade before that, an associate and then partner (from 2016) at the IP boutique McAndrews, Held & Malloy. She was also a systems engineer before law school, though her pre-law employer is not material here.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — Targowska regularly appears in PTAB and IPR proceedings. McAndrews' partner announcement described her as representing clients in USPTO and PTAB proceedings including inter partes reviews, and a PTAB hearing transcript shows her conducting expert examination on § 101/§ 103 invalidity of computer- and network-security patents.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois, the Northern District of Illinois, the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and before the USPTO. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law (2011) and a B.S. in electrical engineering, magna cum laude, from Northwestern University (2008). Note: the two tracked cases are untitled in the record, so no case-specific outcomes beyond the verifiable Fibar dismissal can be attributed to them.