Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP partner Megan Raymond began her term as President of the PTAB Bar Association at the organization’s 2026 annual conference, held March 18–20 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. During the conference, she also moderated the panel “A Decade in Review: Evolution of PTAB Practice.”
Megan has been one of the most prominent PTAB practitioners in the country since the board’s creation in 2012. She has held multiple leadership roles within the PTAB Bar Association, serving as secretary, vice president, and, most recently, president-elect, and has been instrumental in advancing the organization’s programming and gender diversity initiatives, including its original “Women at the PTAB” report on gender diversity at the forum.
This year’s conference brought PTAB practitioners, judges, and officials from federal district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, the International Trade Commission, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office together to mark a decade of the PTAB Bar Association.
Founded in 2016, the PTAB Bar Association was formed to “serve as an avenue for constructive dialogue between the bar community, the PTAB, and other stakeholders” at the increasingly active forum to resolve issues of patent validity.