Katie Coltart

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katie.coltart@kirkland.com

Practice Areas

Katie Coltart is a partner in Kirkland’s London Intellectual Property team. Katie focuses her practice on patent litigation and licensing, particularly in the life sciences and tech sectors. Katie is experienced in dealing with major cross-border matters and multi-jurisdictional cases requiring significant coordination across multiple forums at both first instance and on appeal.

Katie has worked on the litigation and licensing of patents across a broad spectrum of technological subject matters including those relating to antibody and other protein biologics, biological product development and screening platforms, checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies, diagnostics and next generation sequencing technologies, medical devices, wireless and mobile telecommunications, and consumer product technologies. With a degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry and Biology) Katie is well placed to advise her life sciences clients on their most technical subject matter.

In addition to her patent practice, Katie also has experience dealing with trade secrets, trade marks, and other IP licensing matters in the finance, media, and retail sectors.