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Karen Laub is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Orange County office. She is a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department and represents a variety of technology companies-from Fortune 500 to start-ups-engaged in semiconductor, integrated circuit, computer hardware, software, architecture, digital processing and communications industries.
Karen has prepared and prosecuted patent applications, strategically planned and managed IP programs, performed IP due diligence and prepared infringement and validity opinions. She also has structured, drafted and negotiated numerous licensing, development, manufacturing, chip design, sales, distribution, service, joint-venture, settlement, employment and merger and acquisition agreements.
Karen has litigated patent, copyright and trade secret cases involving integrated circuit designs, high data-rate multiplexers and demultiplexers, RF modulators, semiconductor equipment, disk drive controller chips, computers, information distribution software and other software.
She has substantial corporate intellectual property and legal experience, having served as in-house general counsel for a leading chip company for telecommunication and wireless products.
Karen's experience in the high-technology field spans beyond the law. Prior to joining McDermott, she worked for over six years at Hughes Research Laboratories, where she utilized her extensive technical experience to help build multimillion dollar signal processing computers for aircraft. One prototype was delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum . She is the principal inventor of U.S. Patent No. 5,744,284 relating to a novel semiconductor interconnect technology. In addition, Karen has co-authored numerous publications regarding 3-D computers in the International Conference on Wafer Scale Integration, Nepcon , the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing and other technology-related publications.
While at Loyola Law School Karen was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received a master's degree in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from U.C. Los Angeles, where she received the Outstanding BS Candidate Award at graduation. Karen was on the National Dean's List awarded to the top 0.5 percent of students in the nation.
Karen is admitted to practice in California and before the United States District Court for the Northern and Central Districts of California. She is also registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Karen was born in Korea and attended Yewon School. She speaks and writes Korean.
Education:
Loyola Law School-Los Angeles, J.D. (cum laude), 1996
University of California-Berkeley, M.S.E.E., 1986
University of California-Los Angeles, B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude), 1985 | 