Gianna Carina Penezic

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Gianna C. Penezic — Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP (Wilmington, DE)

Focus areas. Penezic practices in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation in federal court, with an emphasis on patent matters in the District of Delaware. Her firm biography highlights a scientific background — a B.S. in biology from Saint Joseph's University (magna cum laude) and stated research interests in neurobiology and clinical bioethics — which she cites as the basis for her patent work. Her commercially documented patent caseload skews toward software/computer-implemented subject matter, consumer and commercial devices, and networking hardware rather than chemistry or biologics: the tracked matter concerns mobile payment applications and payment-accepting machines, and related docket activity involves consumer electronics, connected-device/home-security products, and networking equipment. There is no publicly sourced record of Wi-Fi standards-essential patent, Hatch-Waxman/ANDA, or life-sciences patent work.

Side preference. In the tracked data she appears once, exclusively plaintiff-side and exclusively as Delaware local counsel (1 plaintiff / 0 defendant). Third-party docket aggregators show a broader pattern of Delaware local-counsel work on both sides — filings for plaintiff E. Mishan & Sons (Emson) in E. Mishan & Sons, Inc. v. Baldr International LLC (D. Del. 1:25-cv-00680), for defendant SimpliSafe in SOTAT, LLC v. SimpliSafe, Inc. (D. Del. 1:25-cv-00983), and a signed stipulation for defendant NETGEAR in the TrackThings matter (D. Del., dismissed with prejudice December 2025). These additional appearances come from CourtListener/Justia/Docket Alarm rather than the tracked case list, so they should be treated as indicative, not verified as a complete picture. Taken together, the profile is that of a local-counsel/generalist IP litigator rather than a dedicated NPE-enforcement or operating-company-defense specialist.

Firm context. She is at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, in Wilmington, and appears to have practiced there for her entire post-law-school career; her firm bio lists no prior firm or in-house position. She is not identified as a partner in firm materials reviewed — she appears in the associate/counsel tier of the firm's IP litigation group, which includes partners Melanie K. Sharp, James L. Higgins, Anne Shea Gaza, Adam W. Poff, Pilar G. Kraman, and Robert M. Vrana. She signs filings under Delaware bar no. 7442.

Notable matters and outcomes. The tracked case, Alliance Laundry Systems, LLC v. PayRange Inc. (D. Del., C.A. No. 24-733-MN), is a two-way patent dispute over mobile payment technology for laundry equipment: PayRange counterclaimed on U.S. Patent Nos. 11,481,772, 11,966,920, 11,972,423, and 10,891,608 against Alliance's Speed Queen and Huebsch apps, and Alliance moved to dismiss those counterclaims under § 101 and Rule 12(b)(6). Reported developments include a September 2025 denial of Alliance's motion to dismiss, PTAB institution in August 2025 on the '920 and '423 patents (PGR2025-00028, IPR2025-00573), and denial of Alliance's later challenges to the '772 and '608 patents in late 2025; the dispute remained active into 2026. Those outcomes cut both ways and should be attributed to the litigation team, not to her individually. She also signed Delaware filings in the NETGEAR matter in which NETGEAR obtained dismissal with prejudice (lead counsel: Cooley).

PTAB / IPR experience. No USPTO registration or patent-attorney credential appears on her firm biography, and there is no verifiable public record of her appearing as counsel of record in IPR/PGR proceedings in her own name. The Alliance/PayRange matter does involve parallel PTAB proceedings, but lead PTAB advocacy in those cases appears to be handled by the out-of-state prosecution/PTAB firms.

Bar and education. Admitted in Delaware; also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, J.D., cum laude, with an Intellectual Property Concentration; Saint Joseph's University, B.S., magna cum laude (Biology).

Sourcing note: the practice description, bar admissions, court admissions, and education are drawn from her Young Conaway biography; case activity is drawn from Docket Alarm, CourtListener, and Justia docket entries and a Cooley filing. No reported verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements attributable to her individually were found in the sources reviewed.