Overview
Catherine offers strategic and pragmatic advice to help businesses and individuals develop, protect, and utilize intellectual property rights. She advises clients on acquiring, registering, maintaining, and enforcing trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets in the United States and internationally.
In addition, her practice includes drafting and negotiating complex intellectual property and technology agreements. Catherine has extensive experience in handling the IP aspects of corporate transactions. She also counsels clients on branding strategies, ecommerce, and internet issues as well as intellectual property infringement problems. For many years, Catherine has led a team that serves as the designated agent for a mid-sized ecommerce platform, handling all of its takedown requests.
Education & Admissions
Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2003), summa cum laude; Editor-in-Chief, Brooklyn Law Review, 2002-2003
University of Utah (B.A., History and Political Science, 1994)
Admissions
- Utah
- New York
Clerkships
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, 2003-2004
Experience
Representative Experience
- Negotiated IP aspects of the sale of a software company.
- Counseled a client through the acquisition of medical device assets registered in multiple jurisdictions, including negotiating key documents and amendments to assigned license agreements.
- Negotiated IP aspects of a ten-figure sale of a company with an extensive trademark portfolio.
- Drafted and negotiated amendments to SaaS agreements to allow for use of generative AI tools.
- Negotiated complex managed services agreement against IBM.
- Drafted and negotiated numerous SaaS and on-premise software license agreements.
- Helped client navigate the clearance and registration of major corporate rebranding in the United States and many other countries.
- Assisted client with incorporation of significant product brand acquisition, including analysis of market expansion, licensing relationships and enforcement efforts.
- Counseled start-up media technology platform client on licensing formation, including for NFT platform, and drafted related agreements.
- Drafted and negotiated licensing agreements for launch of products using client’s artwork.
- Negotiated intellectual property provisions regarding battery storage for solar projects.
Industries & Practices
Educational Publishing, Technology & Services
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- Emerging Companies
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Intellectual Property
- Technology
- Technology Commerce
- Trademark & Copyright
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- Member, Intellectual Property Section, Utah State Bar, 2017–present; Secretary 2018-2019; Vice Chair 2019-2020; Chair, 2020-2021
- Advisory Board Member, Women Tech Council, 2020–present
- Steering Committee Member, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Pro Bono Launch 2021
- Chair, Salt Lake County Arts & Culture Advisory Board, 2019–2020; vice chair, 2016–2018; member 2014–2016
- Ballet West Board of Directors, 2013–2015
Accolades
- Recognized as a Leading Practitioner in World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals, 2024
- Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Utah) by Chambers USA (Intellectual Property), 2022-2023
- Included in Utah Business Legal Elite, 2018–2020
- Listed among Rising Stars (Intellectual Property), Mountain States Super Lawyers, 2013–2014
