Karen Boyd

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Karen is a partner in Thompson Hine’s Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation practice group. She represents clients in intellectual property disputes with an emphasis on patent disputes.

Karen’s clients have ranged from solo inventors and universities to Fortune 100 companies, in technologies from pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics to medical devices. She also serves as a mediator, early neutral evaluator and an arbitrator in intellectual property disputes, serves on the mediation panel for the Northern District of California, and previously served on the mediation panels for the Federal Circuit and the International Trade Commission.

Before joining Thompson Hine, Karen was a founding partner of Turner Boyd Seraphine, an IP litigation boutique in Silicon Valley. She served as a law clerk to Judge Paul Michel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and taught appellate procedure with Judge Michel at George Washington Law School. She also taught Patent and Trade Secret Law at UC Law San Francisco and Biotechnology and Chemistry Patent Law at UC Berkeley Law School.

An active supporter of the community, Karen is a director of the California State University, Northridge Foundation, president of the board of the Aurora Singers (a community choir based in Palo Alto), a board member of the Schola Cantorum (an auditioned Bay Area choir), and a supporter and past president of the Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area