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KateNoll

Partner

Overview

Biography

Kate focuses her practice on counseling clients—from start-ups to large corporations—regarding intellectual property portfolio development and management, patent and trademark prosecution, product clearance, and due diligence matters. She has experience in a wide range of technologies, including mechanical and medical devices, metallurgy, semiconductor devices and processes, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optical systems, fuel cells, photovoltaic systems, consumer products, and business methods.

In addition to private practice, Kate served as in-house patent counsel to Teradyne, an automatic test equipment designer and manufacturer. She also worked as an engineer designing and conducting studies primarily in the metallurgical and semiconductor fields for over a decade.

Bar Associations

  • Women’s Bar Association

Selected Memberships & Affiliations

  • Boston Patent Law Association
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association
Experience

Prior Experience

  • Burns & Levinson LLP, Partner
  • Sunstein LLP, Partner
  • Sunstein LLP, Associate
  • Teradyne, Intellectual Property Counsel
  • K&L Gates, Associate
  • Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP, Associate
  • FEI Company, R&D/Process Engineer
  • Benet Laboratories, Materials Engineer

Selected Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America®: Litigation – Patent, 2025–2026
  • Selected to Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Intellectual Property, 2017–2024
  • Selected to Massachusetts Rising Stars: Intellectual Property, 2008–2010
  • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Top Women of Law, 2011

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