Janice L. Ta Partner

Janice L. Ta is an intellectual property lawyer who helps companies enforce, license, and litigate rights related to patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights. She works with clients globally from startups to universities to Fortune 500 companies. Her cases have involved a broad range of technologies, including computer hardware and software, semiconductors, light-emitting diodes (LEDS), audio and video streaming, search algorithms, and cool roofing granules.

Janice’s litigation practice includes actions in U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), state courts, and arbitration tribunals. Janice served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As a first generation college student and lawyer, Janice graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with degrees in Symbolic Systems (B.S.) and Art History (B.A.). She earned her law degree from Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Janice was a user interface designer and product manager at a social networking company, shepherding the development of a variety of products and services from conception to launch. Her work as an attorney is informed by her knowledge of the product development cycle and her understanding of the business needs of growing technology companies. 

Janice was awarded the Top Women in IP “Ginger Rogers Award” by Texas Lawyer in 2022. Janice has also been recognized by Super Lawyers (2022) and as a Texas "Rising Star" in IP litigation by Super Lawyers (2018 and 2019). Janice contributes time to her community in a variety of ways, most recently serving as an executive committee member of the Yale Law School Association, as a board member of Ballet Austin, and as chair of Perkins Coie’s Lawyers With Disabilities Resource Group.