Katherine A. Hamer

Katherine’s practice emphasizes the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent applications for chemical inventions in the aerospace, biofuels, environmental, green energy, national defense, nuclear, semiconductor devices and fabrication, separations and chromatography, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and drug delivery industries. She also has extensive experience advising clients on their patent portfolios in light of changing business strategies. Katherine has industry experience in purifying and isolating small molecules and proteins from spider and scorpion venoms, performing high throughput screening of small molecules, enzyme characterization studies, synthesizing and purifying small molecules, and analyzing mining samples.

Katherine has conducted programs for clients on intellectual property-related issues, as well as career-oriented programs for those interested in a career change and considering patent law.