The Daily Journal has named Palo Alto-based Partner Sonal N. Mehta to its list of Top Intellectual Property Lawyers. The annual list recognizes leading lawyers in California whose achievements over the past year have distinguished them from their peers.

A profile in the publication highlights Mehta’s work with both industry-leading tech companies and innovative start-ups. It also heralds her ability to resolve cases through summary judgement and other dispositive motions, but deliver favorable results at trial when needed. In the profile, Mehta touches  on three recent, case-dispositive summary judgment wins for her clients: summary judgment invalidating two patents for lack of adequate written description on behalf of a leading technology company (in the Western District of Texas, affirmed on appeal), summary judgment invalidating five patents on Section 101 grounds on behalf of a leading video game company (in the District of Massachusetts, affirmed on appeal), and summary judgment of non-infringement on behalf a life sciences tools start-up (in the Northern District of California).

In addition to representing leading companies in high-stakes patent disputes, Mehta serves on the Board of Directors for the Northern District of California’s Practice Program, on the Northern District of California’s Patent Local Rules Attorney Advisory Committee, as Lawyer Representative for the Northern District of California, and as an Executive Committee and Board member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. She also co-teaches a patent litigation class at her alma mater, the UC Berkeley School of Law.