Andrew B. Katz

Email: akatz@chernowkap.com Tel: 215-659-3600

Andrew B. Katz, of counsel, has over 15 years experience as an intellectual property attorney and has been associated with a number of prestigious national and regional law firms in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Andy has developed a thriving practice and counsels clients of all types and sizes in most aspects of intellectual property law. He is a registered Patent attorney and applies his technical background to develop a strong understanding of the technologies that are important to his clients.

Andy places equal emphasis on safeguarding intangible assets and on meeting the business objectives of his clients. In this capacity, he serves a client base with representatives in many different industries and a large number of clients from the computer software and e-commerce sectors. His intellectual property responsibilities include the acquisition, maintenance, protection and enforcement of patents, copyrights and trademarks and trade secrets. With regard to the Internet, Andy registers, transfers and manages domain names, handles UDRP proceedings and drafts Web site protection policies and plans.

Andy’s background in government contracting allows him to assist government contractors with the intellectual property issues that arise in the course of doing business with, including technical data rights retention under the Department of Defense and civilian agency regulations. He has negotiated technology transfer agreements and provided assistance with strategies for marketing to federal government. Further, he works closely with start-ups and emerging businesses, particularly those in technology sectors.

Some of Andy’s more recent successes include negotiating a complex system software license for a local hospital, obtaining patent protection for a cutting edge cellular telephone accessories, restoring the validity of a client’s copyright through an appeal to the Third Circuit, clearing trademark rights for a national hair salon franchise, amicably resolving of a copyright infringement allegation, and drafting on-line agreements for a Kleiner-Perkins funded internet venture.

Andy is well published in the intellectual property community on such topics as file sharing software and its effect on the music industry, privacy in Internet marketing, legal issues affecting start-up technology companies and the rise of software patenting. He has been quoted extensively in Best’s Review in connection with Internet-related issues that affect the insurance industry and has drafted "Intellectual Property and the Web," a 50+ page chapter of an insurance handbook. An accomplished speaker, he has lectured about the perils of e-commerce, digital rights management and content protection.

Andy also serves as an expert witness in the areas of design patents and copyright and testified as such in an international business dispute. He has also been quoted as an authority on points of law in the following publications: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The National Law Journal, Best’s Review, Lawyers Weekly USA, The Pennsylvania Business Journal, The San Jose Mercury News and The Bay-Area Recorder.

He is a member of the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia Bar Associations and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, the Philadelphia Inns of Court and the D.C. Computer Law Forum.

Andy graduated from the George Washington University National Law Center, receiving his J.D. in 1989, and from Lafayette College in 1986 with an A.B. in Engineering.