Gabrielle E. Bina

Gabrielle E. Bina is a patent litigation attorney at Perkins Coie, focusing her practice on intellectual property disputes, including patent litigation and appeals. Her technology focus spans a range of areas, including medical devices, microprocessors, consumer products, and biotechnology. She also has experience with environmental technology, as evidenced by her involvement in cases concerning mercury emissions control from coal-burning power plants.

Ms. Bina represents both patent holders and accused infringers. While her tracked case appearances show a lean toward defendant-side work, with four defendant-side appearances and one plaintiff-side appearance, her professional profile confirms she actively counsels clients on both sides of patent disputes. All her tracked patent litigation appearances are with Perkins Coie, where she serves as Counsel.

Notable cases in her experience include defending clients in the extensive "Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. et al. v. Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company et al." litigation, which involved mercury sorbent technology patents. While the plaintiff, Midwest Energy Emissions Corp., ultimately secured a $57 million verdict against certain defendants in 2024, Ms. Bina's roles in these specific matters were on the defendant side. Her professional biography also highlights successful outcomes such as representing Micro Therapeutics Inc. (MTI) in a patent infringement case involving brain aneurysm repair, resulting in MTI receiving a worldwide license, and securing summary judgment of non-infringement for Ruud Lighting Inc. in a case concerning LED lighting products.

Her practice focuses broadly on intellectual property disputes and appeals, but specific regular involvement in PTAB or IPR proceedings is not explicitly detailed in publicly available professional summaries. Ms. Bina earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2002, where she was a Managing Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Classics from Beloit College in 1998. She is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and several U.S. District Courts.