Megan F. Raymond

Megan F. Raymond is one of the top 50 women in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) trials, representing clients in over 100 post-grant proceedings to date.

Megan also tries patent cases in federal district courts and in the International Trade Commission, and argues appeals before the Federal Circuit.

Megan was named LMG Life Science’s Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year in 2024. Megan is also ranked in Chambers USA for Intellectual Property: Patent. Chambers describes her having particular expertise in PTAB proceedings and describes her as “a very smart and capable lawyer, who represents clients in a very effective way.” In addition, Megan has been recognized as a Legal 500 Next Generation Partner. Megan has been recognized by IAM Patent 1000, and was shortlisted by LMG as 2024 D.C. General Practitioner of the Year. She has also been named to Managing IP’s 2024 IP Stars list, the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America list, and was included in World IP Review’s 2024 Most Influential Women in IP list, which features the top 50 most influential women working in intellectual property law. Megan has also been included in each of the PTAB Bar Association’s “Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials” Lists. And, Megan authored the latest edition of PLI’s treatise, Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Megan currently serves as Vice President of the PTAB Bar Association. Megan is also the chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Patent Litigation Committee. She previously served as a chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s PTAB and Mock Argument Committees. She also served previously as the vice-chair of the PTAB Bar Association’s Programming Committee and Women’s Committee. On the Women’s Committee she worked on preparing the PTAB Bar Association Women at the PTAB report on gender diversity in the PTAB. She received the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s George Hutchinson Committee Award recognizing committee leadership in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. She is a frequent speaker on developments in patent law, including topics primarily related to the PTAB.

Before law school, Megan was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Laboratory of Immunoregulation (Center for Biologics, Evaluation, and Research), where she coauthored papers on vaccine design and development.

Megan received her A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor of Virginia Law and Technology. She was a clerk to the Hon. Haldane Robert Mayer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.