Monica Grewal

Specialty / focus. Monica Grewal's practice centered on patent litigation, patent prosecution/counseling, and post-grant proceedings at the PTAB, with a technical foundation in electrical engineering (she worked as an engineer at United Technologies' Hamilton Standard division before law school). WilmerHale's practice descriptions and PTAB filings place her work across computer software and hardware, wireless/telecommunications, GPS and signal processing, digital cameras, semiconductor fabrication, mechanical and gas-turbine technology, medical devices, and business-method/fintech patents. Her banking-sector work is a recurring thread: mobile check-deposit technology, web-page authentication, and public-key/certificate authentication disputes.

Side preference. The tracked docket shows one appearance, on the defense side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), and that is consistent with her overall practice profile: she primarily defends operating companies — PNC, Intel, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Medtronic/Covidien, Dropbox, Broadcom, GE, Analog Devices, Red Hat — against NPEs and competitors. She is not an NPE-side prosecutor, though she did represent patent owners in IPR proceedings and handled prosecution portfolios for corporate and university clients.

Firm context. Her tracked appearance is at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale), Boston, listed in the role of of counsel; WilmerHale's own site has since described her as a partner and, most recently, a retired partner. Before WilmerHale she was a partner and co-founder of the IP group at a local general-practice firm, worked at two IP boutiques, and served as in-house IP counsel at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.

Notable matters. The tracked case is Intellectual Ventures I & II LLC v. PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (W.D. Pa.), part of a broader IV assertion campaign against banks; Grewal was on the WilmerHale team in the parallel PTAB proceedings. Court records and PTAB hearing transcripts confirm her role as counsel for Bank of America/PNC in the CBM challenges to IV's patents — including Bank of America, PNC Financial Services Group & PNC Bank v. Intellectual Ventures I, in which the Board (CBM2014-00030) invalidated claims of U.S. Patent 7,603,382 under Alice, part of a reported four-CBM sweep that invalidated 83 claims across four IV patents. Her WilmerHale biography also credits the firm team with prevailing for Intel, Apple and HP at the ITC, in district court, and twice at the Federal Circuit in the X2Y Attenuators litigation. Separately, the firm's later PNC engagements — the USAA mobile-deposit litigation, where a 2022 Marshall jury awarded less than 1% of the $80.5M sought and the Federal Circuit in June 2025 reversed a $218M verdict on § 101 grounds — postdate most of her documented appearances in the materials reviewed; I could not confirm her individual role in those later trial/appeal teams.

PTAB / IPR. This is a signature part of her practice. WilmerHale states she has represented clients in more than 50 PTAB proceedings, and she was co-chair of the firm's Post-Grant Proceedings Practice Group and served as President of the PTAB Bar Association (elected 2024; previously secretary and a founding director). USPTO filings list her as lead or backup counsel in numerous IPRs, including the PNC-vs-USAA petitions (e.g., IPR2021-01070/01071/01073/01074 and IPR2021-01077).

Bar / education. Admitted in Massachusetts, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, and before the USPTO (Reg. No. 40,056); JD, University of Connecticut (1997); MS, Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988); BS, Engineering, Trinity College (1987).