Kate Noll
Barclay Damon LLP
Recognized for
Intellectual Property
The Elite Counsel Perspective
Kate’s intellectual property counsel is distinguished by exceptional technical depth: over a decade in engineering and in-house patent experience inform her portfolio judgment.
Kate’s intellectual property counsel is distinguished by exceptional technical depth: over a decade in engineering and in-house patent experience inform her portfolio judgment.
Overview
Kate advises start-ups and large corporations on intellectual property portfolio development and management, patent and trademark prosecution, product clearance, and due diligence. Her work spans mechanical and medical devices, metallurgy, semiconductor devices and processes, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optical systems, fuel cells, photovoltaic systems, consumer products, and business methods. She also co-leads Barclay Damon’s Emerging Technologies and Medical Devices Teams.
Before joining private practice, Kate served as in-house patent counsel to Teradyne, a designer and manufacturer of automatic test equipment. She also spent more than a decade as an engineer, designing and conducting studies primarily in the metallurgical and semiconductor fields.
Education
- Suffolk University Law School, JD, Cum Laude
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS, Materials Engineering
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, BS, Physics
Admissions
- Massachusetts
- US Patent and Trademark Office
Honors & Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America®: Litigation – Patent, 2025–2027
- 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
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