Kathi Vidal, Partner at Winston & Strawn

Today, my guest is Kathi Vidal, the Managing Partner of Winston & Strawn's Silicon Valley office where she is one of the leading patent litigators in the country. Nationally recognized for trying high-profile, high-stakes, and high-tech patent disputes for the region’s leading companies, her experience covers a myriad of technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications, circuits and systems, computers, software, Internet applications, and consumer products. 

Kathi is a nationally-recognized IP litigator who has protected innovative companies through offensive patent actions to preserve their market or through innovative strategies to efficiently resolve defensive patent actions, including in U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission, and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Kathi holds a BS from SUNY Binghamton, an MS from Syracuse and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.