Janet A. Pioli

Janet A. Pioli is a highly experienced patent litigation attorney, currently serving as Senior Counsel at AddyHart. Her practice is primarily focused on strategic counseling for extensive patent portfolios, patent clearance and due diligence, and supervision of patent prosecution. She represents clients across a diverse range of technologies, including medical devices, diagnostic systems, food and beverage products, packaging, navigation technologies, personal care items, industrial pumps, and heavy truck transmissions. Pioli's work emphasizes ensuring that clients' patents effectively cover their inventions and are robust enough to withstand litigation challenges.

Based on available information, Ms. Pioli tends to represent patent owners and plaintiffs. Her tracked appearance is on the plaintiff side, and her professional descriptions indicate a focus on protecting and managing intellectual property for patent holders. She has also appeared on behalf of petitioners in Federal Circuit appeals, such as representing Fintiv, Inc. in an appeal reversing a summary judgment of noninfringement.

Prior to her role at AddyHart, Ms. Pioli was a shareholder for approximately 15 years at the intellectual property firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. Earlier in her career, she also gained experience in-house at Helene Curtis and Olin Corporation, and at Laff, Whitesel, Conte & Saret, where she was involved in early litigation matters like the trademark infringement case Quill Corp. v. LeBlanc (D.N.H. 1987). She maintains a robust appellate practice, regularly appearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where she has delivered numerous oral arguments, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Her experience includes inter partes review proceedings, and she has spoken on patent prosecution reforms relevant to these proceedings.

Ms. Pioli is admitted to practice in Illinois, before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Northern Illinois University College of Law in 1984, and a B.S. from Illinois State University in 1981. She also pursued studies in molecular biology/biotechnology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1992, becoming a registered patent attorney in the same year.