Catherine S. Chou

Associate

Catherine S. Chou provides intellectual property prosecution services for clients in a variety of technological fields. Catherine has a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, with experience in areas such as digital and analog hardware design, software development, augmented and virtual reality systems, semiconductor materials and devices, quantum computing, machine learning, image processing, and satellite and telecommunications.

Extended Profile

Catherine focuses her practice on patent prosecution and counseling, assisting clients with patent procurement and portfolio development both domestically and internationally. She also has experience performing IP due diligence and freedom-to-operate analyses.

Before attending law school, Catherine worked for four years as an engineer at Apple, developing power management and battery technologies, and is a co-inventor on a number of patents. She has performed research at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, and Qualcomm. During law school, Catherine was a member of the UCLA Law Review and founded the Intellectual Property Law Association.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2015, J.D.
California Institute of Technology, 2009, M.S., Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, 2007, B.S., Electrical Engineering

Admissions

California
US Patent and Trademark Office

Awards and Affiliations

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Intellectual Property, Law360 (2019)

Member, Litigation Department of the Year–Intellectual Property, The American Lawyer (2019)