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Sarah Garber
SVP of Operations & General Counsel
Juristat
As the SVP of Operations and General Counsel at Juristat, Sarah Garber brings together legal, operational, and data expertise to drive strategic growth and ensure operational excellence across the organization. With more than 15 years of experience in the legal and technology industries, and a deep understanding of the patent landscape, Sarah oversees key operational functions while guiding legal and compliance strategy.
Previously serving as SVP of Product and Client Experience, and earlier as VP and Director of Client Success, Sarah led cross-functional teams in designing and delivering innovative, user-centric tools for patent professionals. She remains passionate about creating high-impact products and services, supporting clients in making data-driven decisions, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture at Juristat.
Throughout every role, Sarah has focused on delivering value to clients, empowering teams, and aligning operational priorities with Juristat’s broader mission to transform patent prosecution through data and technology.
Recent Articles by Sarah Garber
The Third Wave: Why Big Data is the Future of Legal Tech
As anyone who’s worked at a law firm can attest, lawyers at a firm use each others’ experience to inform their strategy in a given case. Firm-wide emails asking if anyone has appeared in front of a particular judge or tribunal are routine and allow lawyers to benefit from the insights their colleagues provide. Big data analytics allow lawyers to gather this same information, but on a much larger scale. For instance, analytics platforms allow attorneys to view their judge’s complete history, including every decision issued and every case cited, to identify the legal precedent the judge finds most persuasive.
Avoiding Alice Rejections with Predictive Analytics
The disparity between the art units is confused even more so when we consider the total number of Alice rejections in each art unit, rather than just counting the total number of applications receiving an Alice rejection. Doing that, we can see that, while 3622 and 3623 have almost equal numbers of applications with Alice rejections, 3623 actually has more in total. This means that applications in that art unit are more likely to receive multiple Alice rejections and take longer to prosecute.
