Lisa Kattan, Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade Commission (ITC) Practice, represents technology and life sciences clients in patent litigation, particularly in section 337 investigations before the ITC and related district court, appellate, and US Customs and Border Protection proceedings.

Lisa draws on more than two decades of trial experience to advise clients on complex, multi-faceted disputes spanning technologies including:

  • Telecommunications hardware and communications standards
  • Video streaming, semiconductors, and power converters
  • Pharmaceuticals and DNA sequencing
  • Polymer synthesis and CMP formulation
  • Medical devices, including radiotherapy treatment devices, balloon catheters, and CPAP devices
  • Consumer products, including toner cartridges and flash memory devices

Before joining Latham, Lisa chaired the ITC litigation practice group at another global law firm. Prior to that, she was a senior investigative attorney in the ITC’s Office of Unfair Import Investigations.

Lisa is a Chambers USA and Legal 500 US-ranked ITC practitioner and a member of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association. She is a frequent speaker about ITC litigation strategy and best practices.

Lisa’s ITC career began with Certain Modified Vaccinia Ankara and Vaccines and Pharmaceutical Compositions, ITC Inv. 337-TA-550. Prior to returning to private practice, she was lead counsel for the government on a variety of telecommunications, medical device, and consumer device 337 investigations.

Lisa’s client representations prior to joining Latham include:

  • LGEUS and VIZIO in two investigations concerning LCD glass composition
  • DISH in:
    • An ITC trial, enforcement litigation, and Customs Rule 177 proceedings related to video streaming, resulting in a more than US$100 million settlement
    • A patent infringement damages litigation related to video streaming
  • CMC in:
    • An ITC trial and related Customs Rule 177 proceedings related to CMP slurries used for semiconductor manufacturer
    • A related patent infringement damages litigation
  • Huber + Suhner in a general exclusion order ITC investigation related to high density fiber optic equipment for data centers and successful Customs Rule 177 proceeding
  • Brother Industries in relation to toner cartridge patent infringement against 32 respondents and more than a dozen subsequent Customs Rule 1777 proceedings
  • Fujifilm in:
    • Five ITC investigations and trials, and multiple Customs Rule 177 proceedings, resulting in obtaining two exclusion orders
    • Obtaining successful enforcement of exclusion order
    • Defeating exclusion orders
  • Western Digital and Sandisk in a patent infringement ITC investigation involving flash memory brought by Memory Technologies
  • Oxford Nanopore Techs in a patent ITC infringement investigation involving nucleic acid sequencing systems brought by Pacific Biosciences; affirmed on appeal

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia
  • US Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • JD, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 1999
  • MS, University of Minnesota, 1996
  • BA, University of South Dakota, 1992