Braden M. Katterheinrich

Partner

Overview

Braden Katterheinrich helps clients protect and evaluate their intellectual property assets — leveraging past experience as in-house counsel for a global technology company.

Patent Experience

Braden prepares and prosecutes patent applications in the electrical, software, medical device, magnetic and mechanical arts. He represents clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, drafting appeal and reply briefs and arguing oral hearings. Braden also provides guidance on challenging competitor patents and applications at the USPTO, including preparing third-party preissuance submissions.

IP Counseling, Contracts and Litigation

Braden helps clients generate and evaluate inventions, document and protect trade secrets, track competitor patent activity and develop IP and agreement strategies—including extensive experience preparing patent landscape and portfolio analysis.

Braden performs IP and contractual due diligence to support mergers, acquisitions and investments. His experience also includes negotiating and drafting agreements involving:
  • IP licensing
  • Joint- and sponsored-technology development
  • Outsourcing
  • Confidentiality

Braden works with clients to develop invalidity, non-infringement and claim construction positions for patent litigation and freedom-to-operate investigations.

Faculty Positions

  • University of Minnesota — Adjunct Professor

 

Credentials

Bar Admissions

Minnesota
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

Mitchell Hamline School of Law
J.D. William Mitchell Law Review (assistant editor) (2010)

Valparaiso University
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2007)

Insights & Events

Other Perspectives
  • Chapter 2
    Co-author, Intellectual Property Law Institute 2018 Course Handbook, October 2018
  • Contractual Risk Transfer – Damages, Indemnity, Limitations of Warranties, Limitations of Liability
    Presenter, CLE, August 2018
  • Pre-Grant Challenges: Third-Party Submissions
    Presenter, Spring Symposium on Patent Law, April 2018
  • Proving Patent Eligibility Using Preemption: Federal Circuit’s Decision in McRO v. Bandai Expands the Boundaries for Patent-Eligible Inventions
    Co-author, Landslide, May 2017
  • Functional Claiming Under U.S. Patent Law
    Co-author, International In-House Counsel Journal, Fall 2015
  • The Confluence of Patents and Standards
    Co-author, AIPLA, Spring 2013 meeting

Leadership & Community

Pro Bono

  • LegalCORPS
  • Tubman Safety Project

Honors

  • Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2020, 2022
  • Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2016-19
Awards Methodology
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