Randi L. Karpinia

Randi L. Karpinia is the CEO and head of intellectual property of Sagacity Legal PLLC, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where she offers strategic counsel to clients across a wide range of intellectual property matters. With decades of technical and legal experience, she focuses her practice on patents, trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property licensing and related issues.

A Florida Bar board-certified intellectual property lawyer, Ms. Karpinia has built a distinguished career advising innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses on protecting and maximizing the value of their intellectual assets. She has prosecuted thousands of patent applications worldwide, demonstrating a deep understanding of both domestic and international intellectual property systems. Her practice encompasses patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio management, licensing strategies and enforcement.

Ms. Karpinia earned her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and her Master of Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University in 1986. She later pursued her legal education at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, where she received her Juris Doctor in 2001. That same year, she was admitted to practice in Florida and is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

An active leader in the intellectual property community, Ms. Karpinia is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and has held several leadership roles within the organization, including vice chair and chair of the Mentoring Committee from 2016 to 2022. She previously served as committee chair and vice chair for Women in IP Law and mentoring initiatives from 2007 to 2015. She is also a member of The Florida Bar’s Certification Committee.

Ms. Karpinia’s professional achievements have earned notable recognition, including being named among the “Powerful Women in IP” by the World IP Forum in 2021 and receiving the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. She also received an AV Preeminent* peer-review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, the organization’s premier rating.

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