Stephanie Kato's legal practice encompasses a range of intellectual property matters, with a focus on patent litigation, patent prosecution, and worldwide portfolio counseling.
Stephanie uses her engineering background and intellectual property experience to counsel clients on strategic patent portfolios and technology development through preparation and prosecution of patent applications, as well as acquisition assessments, due diligence analysis, and freedom-to-operate opinions. She has also assisted multinational corporations with patent disputes before U.S. federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Stephanie has experience working with clients in a variety of technology fields including autonomous vehicles, circuit design, control systems, digital security and cryptography, electronics and telecommunications, medical devices, robotics, and software development. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional in United States privacy law (CIPP/US).
Stephanie is actively involved in the firm's pro bono practice advocating on behalf of survivors of gender-based violence for Her Justice. She also dedicates her time volunteering with Asian American groups in the community.
Prior to her legal career, Stephanie was a graduate researcher at Stanford University, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to research obstacle detection controllers and vision systems for autonomous vehicles. She is an alumna of the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Columbia Law School.