Catherine Booth

Catherine’s practice areas include creating and managing IP portfolios, drafting, prosecution, post-grant matters, licensing, freedom to operate/infringement & validity, litigation and other disputes. She has significant experience of opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office. Catherine is experienced in a wide range of technical fields, but works predominantly in healthcare, engineering and telecommunications. She specialises in medical devices and related pharmaceuticals, as well as healthcare and hygiene, optics, engineering, semiconductors, telecommunications and electromechanical devices.

Catherine has an honours degree in physics and a PhD for research into optical spectroscopy of wide band-gap semiconductors, both from the University of East Anglia. Her research focused on technology related to semiconductor structures emitting light in the blue region of the spectrum, which had significant worldwide commercial implications.

Catherine is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) and European Patent Institute (EPI).

Catherine specialises in prosecution and also post-grant matters including oppositions/appeals and infringement & validity opinions.  She works with several large corporations advising on clearance issues for their products and processes and has recently attended a number of successful hearings to resolve particular matters of concern.