Paige S. Stradley

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Paige S. Stradley — Merchant & Gould (Minneapolis)

Focus. Stradley is an IP litigator whose practice spans patent (utility and design), trademark, trade dress, copyright, and false-advertising disputes, with a substantial brand-protection and design-patent counseling component. Her patent work in the tracked docket and in public filings clusters around mechanical and electro-mechanical consumer and industrial products: dual-fuel portable generators and fuel systems (Champion Power Equipment v. Generac), engineered-wood building panels and sheathing (Huber Engineered Woods v. Louisiana-Pacific and related IPRs), wearable health-monitoring devices (True Wearables, C.D. Cal.), and streaming/multimedia distribution patents (Valve v. Rothschild, W.D. Wash.; Factor2 Multimedia Systems). I found no public indication of pharma, Wi-Fi/standards-essential, or semiconductor work.

Side preference. She is predominantly a defense-side litigator but not exclusively so. The tracked list shows three defendant-side appearances against one plaintiff-side appearance, and the public record is consistent: she is on the Generac defense team in Champion's E.D. Wis. action (No. 24-cv-1281), represented True Wearables and its founder against Masimo in C.D. Cal., and defended the Rothschild entities in Valve's W.D. Wash. declaratory judgment suit — a rare instance of defending a well-known patent-monetization figure. On the other side, she represented patent owner Huber Engineered Woods as plaintiff in Delaware and Texas district court and in PTAB proceedings. The one plaintiff-side tracked entry is characterized as counsel in a related district court case, which is consistent with the Huber/Louisiana-Pacific pair of litigation and IPR matters rather than an NPE enforcement practice.

Firm and notable matters. Stradley has been at Merchant & Gould throughout her career as reflected in public records (no prior firm found); she was promoted to partner effective July 1, 2020, and works from the Minneapolis office. The most prominent tracked matter is Champion Power Equipment, Inc. v. Generac Power Systems, Inc., a multi-patent portable-generator campaign in E.D. Wis. in which Generac filed a large parallel IPR campaign (e.g., IPR2025-00805, -01121, -01463) and stipulated to broad Sotera-style invalidity limits — Stradley is listed on the district court team, though the PTAB powers of attorney in those IPRs name other Merchant & Gould attorneys (Thomas J. Leach, Taylor R. Stemler). She is separately named on the docket and on PTAB papers for patent owner Huber Engineered Woods in the long-running Huber/Louisiana-Pacific dispute (D. Del. C.A. No. 19-342; IPR2019-00919 on U.S. Pat. 9,546,479 and the IPR involving U.S. Pat. 8,474,588). I could not verify any trial verdict, Federal Circuit decision, or publicly disclosed settlement attributable to her, so no results are claimed here.

PTAB/IPR, bar, and education. Her PTAB experience is real but appears secondary to her district court work: she is listed as counsel for patent owner Huber Engineered Woods on preliminary responses, evidentiary objections, and related filings in multiple IPRs, and she is part of firm teams running the Generac IPR campaign, but I did not find her as first-named petitioner's counsel on any petition. She is admitted in Minnesota (2012) and registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 74,771); she earned her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2012. She has been listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch and Minnesota Super Lawyers/Rising Stars. Details on additional bar admissions were not verified.