Samantha Lerner

Samantha Lerner is a highly experienced trial lawyer at Winston & Strawn LLP, where she co-chairs the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation Practice. She focuses her practice on complex commercial and patent litigation, having spent her entire career at the firm. Her patent litigation experience spans a diverse range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and instruments, and telephone and computer technology.

Lerner primarily represents corporate defendants, often defending Fortune 500 companies against patent infringement allegations. Her tracked case, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., involved her representing the defendant in a dispute concerning patents related to stabilized tacrolimus compositions. She has also acted as trial counsel for a plaintiff, Flypsi, in a patent dispute against Google involving mobile device telephone call technology. Notably, she successfully invalidated a patent under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a case where she represented an electronics company facing allegations of patent infringement related to videoconferencing technology.

While her individual profile does not specifically detail extensive personal PTAB experience, Winston & Strawn's Intellectual Property practice is recognized for its strength in handling disputes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Samantha Lerner earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2007 and holds a B.A. in International Relations, with honors in Humanities, from Stanford University, which she received in 2003. She practices out of the firm's Chicago office.