Jeannine Sano is a nationally recognized first-chair trial lawyer with 30 years of experience handling patent and trade secret trials and appeals in intellectual property venues across the country. Her trial successes have been recognized by IAM Patent 1000, Managing IP, The Recorder, Daily Journal, and Benchmark Litigation, among other publications and awards. She is on the Early Neutral Evaluation panel in the Northern District of California and previously served as Chair of the Patent Litigation and ITC Practice Committees of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property. She is a frequent instructor at NITA, teaching trial advocacy skills to practicing attorneys, and serves as a judge for the American Mock Trial Competition and the Federal Bar Association’s Moot Court Competition.
Jeannine’s command of the courtroom is enhanced by her ability to explain and distill complex technical subjects in fields such as mobile communications, video processing, graphics, operating systems, CPUs and chipsets, memory, power management, LCD and OLED displays, computer-aided design software, and medical devices. She has tried cases in the most active patent district courts, including the Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of Texas, Middle District of Florida, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Northern District of California, as well as obtaining wins at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the California Court of Appeal on an issue of first impression in California trade secret law.
Updated Oct 2024