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Catherine M.
Voisinet
AssociateAddress:
Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Suite 100 East
8110 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
USA
Telephone: +1-703-205-8000
Facsimile: +1-703-205-8050
E-mail: cmv@bskb.com
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Bar Admissions: 2001, Maryland; 2002,
District of Columbia; registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
(Not admitted in Virginia).
Education: Hunter College of the City University of New York (B.A.,
Computer Science, 1993); Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1999).
Membership: American Bar Association.
Experience:
Catherine M. Voisinet is a registered patent attorney and associate at
BSKB. Ms. Voisinet has been working in the field of intellectual property since 1997. Ms.
Voisinet became a registered patent agent in 2002, became a member of the Maryland bar in
2001 and District of Columbia bar in 2002. Ms. Voisinet received her degree in Computer
Science and Mathematics from the City University of New York at Hunter College and her
Juris Doctorate degree from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Voisinet was a Patent Examiner at the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1998-1999 and examined applications in the field of
Information Processing, System Organinzation and Error Detection/Correction.
In the course of her career as an intellectual property attorney, Ms. Voisinet has
assisted clients, including start-up and small companies, in the planning of their
intellectual property strategy and in the obtaining of patent rights for their inventions.
This assistance included conducting patent audits and preparing, filing and prosecuting
patent applications. Ms. Voisinet has drafted claims for clients having interests in many
fields of computer science and electrical engineering. Ms. Voisinet has prepared and filed
numerous Appeal Briefs and has argued before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Board of Appeals. Further, she has prepared and prosecuted reexamination and
reissue applications.
In addition to practicing Intellectual Property Law, Ms. Voisinet has lectured on a
number of topics related to Intellectual Property. For example, Ms. Voisinet has lectured
at the U.S. Patent Law Seminar at the the Danish Patent Office in December, 2002, and
September, 2004. These topics included statutory subject matter, strategies for
prosecuting patent applications, non-obviousness, reissue and reexamination, claim
drafting and patent infringement. Ms. Voisinet has further lectured at the BSKB Summer
Training Program and the Advanced Patent and Licensing Seminar on licensing, alternatives
to patents for protecting computer related technology, electrical patent prosecution and
the best mode requirement.
Ms. Voisinet has also prepared numerous opinions analyzing patentability, patent
validity and patent infringement issues.
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