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Karen Boyd
650.533.7572
boyd@turnerboyd.com
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Ms. Boyd represents clients in intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark disputes. Her clients have ranged from solo inventors and universities, to Fortune 100 companies. Ms. Boyd has represented clients in numerous technologies--from pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics to medical devices. She has significant trial experience, including four jury trials in patent cases, and a week-long preliminary injunction “mini-trial” to the bench. Ms. Boyd is also a trained mediator, and mediates intellectual property disputes. She serves on the mediation panels for the Northern District of California and International Trade Commission, and previously served on the mediation panel for the Federal Circuit.

Ms. Boyd received her law degree in 1996 from U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) where she was an articles editor for the High Technology Law Journal (now the Berkeley Technology Law Journal). She received her master’s degree in molecular biology from UCLA, where she was a National Institutes of Health training grant recipient. Her bachelor’s degree is in environmental biology.

Before founding Turner Boyd LLP, Ms. Boyd was a partner at Fish & Richardson, where she practiced from 1997 to 2007, and the head of the life sciences practice at Axiom. She was law clerk to the Honorable Paul Michel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1996 to 1997, where she also taught appellate procedure with Judge Michel at George Washington Law School. She has taught Patent and Trade Secret Law at Hastings College of the Law (2003), and teaches Biotechnology and Chemistry Patent Law at her alma mater, U.C. Berkeley School of Law (2002 to present).

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