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California, 2008

Admitted to practice before: 

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

Credentials

  • J.D., Southwestern Law School, 2008
    • Southwestern International Law Journal, Lead Articles Editor
  • M.S., University of Southern California, Biomedical Engineering, 2012
  • B.S., University of Virginia, Biology, 2003

Katherine Quigley is of counsel in Womble Bond Dickinson's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Katherine focuses on the protection, licensing, and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

With a decade of experience in intellectual property, Katherine helps clients protect their patent and trademark rights, strategize and assess risks pertaining to their intellectual property portfolios, and enforce their intellectual property rights through litigation. She has extensive experience in lawsuits involving claims of patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, and unfair competition. She also works with clients to build their intellectual property portfolios through the filing and prosecuting of patent applications in a variety of technical arts, including biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and optics, and by counseling clients in ‎trademark and brand protection, including trademark clearance, prosecution, licensing, portfolio ‎management, and litigation guidance.

Representative Experience

Any result the lawyer or law firm may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients.

  • Prosecuted hundreds of patents for mechanical devices, medical devices, and other devices including organic chemical compounds.
  • Prosecuted trademarks and crafted trade secret policies and non-disclosure agreements for tech and biotech companies.
  • Represented fiber optic technology company in trade secret arbitration.
  • Bragel International, Inc. v. Styles For Less, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2015). – Represented plaintiff in patent infringement suit.
  • Bragel International, Inc. v. Charlotte Russe, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2015). – Represented plaintiff in patent infringement suit.
  • Merit Healthcare International, Inc. v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2014) – Represented plaintiff in trademark cancellation and declaratory judgment suit.
  • Electric Power Group, LLC v. Alstom, S.A., Alstom Grid, Inc., Psymetrix Ltd., and Alstom Limited (C.D. Cal. 2012) – Representing plaintiff in complex patent infringement suit involving computer systems for monitoring the electric power grid.
  • NYKO Technologies, Inc. v. Energizer Holdings, Inc., Eveready Battery Company, Inc., and Performance Designed Products LLC (C.D. Cal. 2012) – Represented plaintiff in patent infringement suit involving video game controller charging systems.
  • Assisted with due diligence and licensing of patent and trademark portfolio in a multimillion transaction.
  • Yuyama Manufacturing Co., Ltd., v. JVM, Co., Ltd., 06-CV-2536, appeal dismissed, 2011-1104 (Fed. Cir. 2013) – Represented defendant in medical device patent litigation that was won at trial. 

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