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Catherine’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including both patent and trade secret litigation. In her practice, Catherine has worked with a variety of complex technologies, including medical devices, OTT streaming, audiovisual recording software, smart thermostats, and other products and tools used in the software, mechanical, and electrical engineering spaces. Catherine's breadth of experience spans from pre-suit investigation and diligence through post-trial matters, including participating in pre-litigation settlement and licensing discussions, conducting preliminary patent and prior art reviews, identifying candidate patents and corresponding infringement targets, preparing pleadings, motion practice, working with experts, managing discovery, depositions, Markman hearings, handling pre-trial matters, preparing and presenting witnesses at trial, as well as post-trial briefing. She has litigated in both district court and the International Trade Commission, and she has also assisted with inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Catherine also has assisted clients with patent opinion work, and she has prosecuted both foreign and domestic patents, including in the biotechnology and the chemical arts, such as patents for viral vaccines, antibodies, novel microorganisms, and medical treatments. Catherine’s litigation experience also includes pro bono matters, where she has helped represent a detainee at the Cook County Jail in a Section 1983 case, litigated another Section 1983 case in the Eastern District of Louisiana asserting, inter alia, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment violations, such as excessive force, illegal search, and deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, as well as assisted with an asylum application for an Afghan refugee.
Catherine was previously an intellectual property associate in the Chicago offices of Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Dentons, and Venable LLP. She received her law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, graduating cum laude, with a certificate in Intellectual Property Law. While in school, she served as the president of the Intellectual Property Law Society, was a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property, served as a teaching assistant for a first year Criminal Law course, and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Legal Writing III, Patent Litigation, and Property Law.
Publications:
- Freedom of the Whistleblowers: Why Prosecuting Government Leakers Under the Espionage Act Raises First Amendment Concerns, 74 Nat'l Law. Guild Rev. 209 (Jan. 1, 2018)
- The Cessation of Innovation: An Inquiry into Whether Congress Can and Should Strip the Supreme Court of Its Appellate Jurisdiction to Entertain Patent Cases, 92 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 679 (Oct. 30, 2017)
