Katy Basile

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The world's most iconic brands turn to Katy Basile for strategic trademark and brand advice. A former in-house counsel, Katy pairs a global portfolio owner’s pragmatism with a litigator's instinct, delivering advice that is at once creative, comprehensive, and targeted. Katy draws on her experience spanning more than 30 years and 200 jurisdictions, including protection of nontraditional marks such as three-dimensional, sound, and color trademarks, as well as trade dress and product packaging. Katy’s practice truly covers the full arc of trademark law—from brand creation, clearance, and prosecution to brand protection, both offensively and defensively.

Katy appears regularly before the USPTO’s Trademark Trial & Appeal Board and advises on federal trademark and unfair competition litigation. She has extensive experience managing multi-jurisdictional disputes, and has leveraged ADR proceedings to resolve numerous trademark infringement matters to her clients' satisfaction

Managing Intellectual Property named Katy “Trademark Prosecutor of the Year (West)” in 2026, and the WTR 1000 reports that her clients observe she "has been able to secure favourable outcomes for us over and over again" and that she "brings extensive in-house and commercial litigation experience to bear on her prosecution and enforcement practice," noting that "she has a truly global outlook which no doubt contributes to her faultless track record."