Katherine P. Califa is an intellectual property lawyer with extensive experience helping companies clear, protect, license, enforce, and strategically manage their valuable assets, including brands, packaging, product shapes, and creative works. She is a partner in the firm’s Trademark, Copyright, & Advertising Practice and the Health Care & Life Sciences Sector and serves as Senior Chair of the firm’s Latino Attorney Affinity Group.
Katherine works with clients in all industries and has significant experience in the pharmaceutical, medical device, food & beverage, and financial services industries, in particular. Katherine has helped clients secure and enforce their brands in over 100 countries around the world.
Katherine’s practice includes:
- Developing practical, cost-effective brand protection and enforcement strategies
- Advising on U.S. pharmaceutical name selection, including the intersection between trademark and regulatory review of drug candidate names
- Securing product shape protection for medical devices, edible goods, and fashion products
- Thinking “outside the box” to secure protection for non-traditional brands
- Representing clients in administrative litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
- Negotiating favorable settlements to complex trademark disputes
- Providing intellectual property support for mergers, acquisitions, sales and other business transactions
Prior to joining Foley, Katherine served as a law clerk for the Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
