Warner Norcross + Judd LLP has welcomed Catherine U. Brown as senior counsel in its Midland office.
Brown is a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of intellectual property experience and brings unique, practical industry insight as a former chemical process engineer. She provides services in the areas of patent drafting and prosecution, international patent portfolio management, freedom-to-operate, noninfringement, invalidity and patentability opinions, intellectual property counseling, and the drafting and negotiation of intellectual property agreements. She is a member of the firm’s Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Prior to joining Warner, Brown served as expert counsel for Dow Silicones Corporation, where she provided global intellectual property counsel to the company’s resins, coatings, adhesives, global research, emulsions, polymers, sealants, semiconductor and electronics businesses. During her tenure, she drafted and filed more than 400 priority patent applications and managed an international prosecution docket of more than 950 pending patent applications.
Brown is admitted to practice in Michigan and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She earned her law degree cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
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