Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone

Intellectual Property Litigation

Partner at Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP

Megan F. Raymond is one of the “Top 50 Women in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Trials," according to the PTAB Bar Association, representing clients in over 90 post-grant proceedings to date. She also tries patent cases in federal district courts and in the International Trade Commission and argues appeals before the Federal Circuit.

Ms. Raymond is ranked in Chambers USA as an “Up and Coming” practitioner for Intellectual Property: Patent. Chambers describes her having particular expertise in PTAB proceedings and as “a very smart and capable lawyer, who represents clients in a very effective way.” Megan is ranked "Bronze - Individuals: litigation" for DC in IAM Patent 1000 and has been recognized by IAM and The Legal 500 as “a rising star who can handle difficult arguments and witnesses with grace and effectiveness.” In 2023, Lawdragon named Megan in its “500 X – The Next Generation” guide, and she was shortlisted for “Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year” by LMG Life Sciences. Megan has authored updates to PLI’s treatise, Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, beginning with Release 12d, and is currently writing the next edition of the treatise.

Megan is the chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s PTAB/TTAB committee and the vice-co-chair of the Association’s Mock Argument Committee. She also serves as Secretary of the PTAB Bar Association. Previously, while serving as the Association’s vice-chair of the Women’s Committee, she worked on the Women at the PTAB report on gender diversity in the PTAB.  Megan received the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s George Hutchinson Committee Award recognizing committee leadership in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She is a frequent speaker on developments in patent law, including topics related to the PTAB, and the intersection of the PTAB and district court litigation and/or the ITC.

Megan received her A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Haldane Robert Mayer of the Federal Circuit.  Megan was also a research fellow at the NIH in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Laboratory of Immunoregulation and authored papers about vaccine design and development.

Megan is the chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s PTAB/TTAB committee and the vice-co-chair of the Association’s Mock Argument Committee.

PTAB Bar Association, Secretary

A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University

J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law