Ching-Lee Fukuda, left, and Aimee P. Fagan, right, of Sidley Austin. Courtesy photos 4 Out of Sidley's 5 Global IP Litigation Leaders Are Women. Here's How That's Shaped the Practice
Ching-Lee Fukuda and Aimee Fagan, who both joined Sidley's IP litigation team as laterals, discuss what brought them to the firm and their approach to leading the practice.
March 26, 2024 at 07:30 AM
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Gender Diversity
When you take the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math fields and multiply it by what you find in Big Law it equals up to something like this: A 2022 study in the North Carolina Law Review found that 87.4% of patent arguments before the Federal Circuit over the previous decade were handled by men. The study also found men handled more than 90% of patent arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court over the prior 30 years.
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