About Catherine E. O'Brien

Katie O’Brien assists clients with intellectual property and advertising matters across a variety of industries.

Protecting your brand and intellectual property assets

Katie focuses her practice on intellectual property, advertising, and related commercial litigation, including trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and defamation. Katie assists clients through all stages of civil litigation and as well as representing clients before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Katie is also a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and assists clients with drafting privacy, data and information security notices, policies and procedures.

Prior to joining Katten, Katie served as a Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Fellow at Lawyers for the Creative Arts, where she assisted artists in the Chicago area with a wide variety of legal issues. Katie now serves on the associate board for the Lawyers for the Creative Arts.

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Practice Focus

  • Litigation
  • Intellectual property litigation

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Education
  • Vanderbilt University Law School, JD
  • University of Miami, BM
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  • Illinois
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Recognized or listed in the following:
  • ANDA Litigation Intelligence Report
    Best Performing ANDA Attorneys Representing Defendants, 2024
    Most Active ANDA Attorneys Representing Defendants, 2024
    Best Performing ANDA Attorneys Overall (Representing Plaintiffs or Defendants), 2024
    Most Active ANDA Attorneys Overall (Representing Plaintiffs and Defendants), 2024
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