Samantha Carl

I'll research this attorney before writing the summary.

Let me verify the specific tracked cases and any PTAB activity.

Let me dig into the two specific tracked matters and her PTAB appearances.

Samantha "Sam" Carl — Associate, Perkins Coie LLP (Seattle); Intellectual Property / Patent Litigation practice. Her tracked patent docket is small and early-career, consistent with a 2023 law school graduate, and skews defense-side: three of four tracked appearances are for defendants (with one plaintiff-side matter). Publicly she is not an NPE/PAE plaintiff's counsel; her work is on behalf of operating companies and, in one matter, the defensive aggregator Unified Patents.

Technology focus. Firm biography describes work across "liveness detection" and networking technologies in the gaming industry, plus research on standard-essential patents, with involvement in discovery, invalidity analysis, pleadings, and complex motions. That matches the docket: her most visible tracked matter is the biometric facial-liveness dispute FaceTec, Inc. v. Jumio Corp. (N.D. Cal.), where she is named on the Perkins Coie district-court team and on the IPR team; she is also tracked in Champion Power Equipment Inc. v. Firman Power Equipment Inc. (D. Ariz., No. 2:23-cv-02371-DWL), a multi-patent fight over dual-/tri-fuel portable generator technology (mechanical/electromechanical fuel-valve claims). The fourth tracked item, Unified Patents LLC v. FaceTec Inc., again sits in the biometric-liveness sphere. A further untitled matter lists her in a "Patent Attorney" role, suggesting some prosecution-adjacent exposure, though the record there is not verifiable.

Notable matters and outcomes. The FaceTec/Jumio litigation is the most prominent. Perkins Coie was disqualified from defending Jumio in April 2025 (Judge Rita F. Lin, N.D. Cal.) because of the firm's earlier general corporate and IP counseling for FaceTec — a conflict ruling widely covered by Law360 and Biometric Update; the firm's disqualification, not any merits ruling, ended its role. Before disqualification, Perkins Coie filed four IPR petitions (IPR2025-00106 through -00109) against FaceTec patents 10,776,471; 11,157,606; 11,693,938; and 11,874,910. Reporting indicates the PTAB ultimately upheld all four FaceTec patents, a loss for the petitioner side. Carl's specific contribution to those outcomes is not documented in the public sources; she is identified only as a team member. Beyond the disqualification coverage, I found no reported verdicts, settlements, or Federal Circuit decisions attributable to her individually. Note that the Champion/Firman dockets I could verify list Davis Wright Tremaine, Londen & Londen, and Snell & Wilmer as counsel, so her tracked "lead counsel" designation there is not independently confirmed by the public filings I reviewed.

PTAB/IPR. Yes, to the extent her short record shows — she is expressly named as a member of the Perkins Coie IPR team in the FaceTec/Jumio reviews, and Perkins Coie's own directory tags her profile with post-grant proceedings. She does not yet appear as lead or backup counsel of record in PTAB proceedings on the sources reviewed.

Bar and education. Admitted in Washington and Pennsylvania; J.D., University of Washington School of Law (2023, high honors, Order of the Coif); B.S. in Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy (2014). Prior to law school she served as a U.S. Navy officer; she was a Perkins Coie patent litigation summer associate in 2022. Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2026) for Intellectual Property Law and Patent Litigation. Her only firm affiliation in the tracked data is Perkins Coie; no prior firm history is documented other than the summer-associate roles.