Katie Moerke practices in the areas of Intellectual Property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret, as well as Business and Commercial litigation, including contract disputes and business torts. She has represented clients and litigated numerous complex cases in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota as well as in federal courts throughout the country. Her patent cases have involved various technologies, including the internet, digital communications, software, medical devices, plastic composites, and consumer goods.

After law school, Katie clerked for The Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, then Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. During law school, Katie served as editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Law Review and graduated summa cum laude. Prior to law school, Katie served as the first director of the Women’s Resource Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Professional and Civic Activities

• Federal Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association

Publications and Presentations

• Must More Speech Be the Solution to Harmful Speech? Judicial Elections after Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 48 S.D. L. Rev 303 (2003)
• Sacrificing Judicial Power on an Altar of Judicial Independence: Republican Party of Minnesota v. Kelly, 35 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 47 (2001)
• Introduction, Associations Are People Too, 85 Minn. L. Rev. 1475 (2001) (with David W. Selden)
• Free Speech to a Machine? Encryption Software Source Code Is Not Constitutionally Protected “Speech” Under the First Amendment, 84 Minn. L. Rev. 1007 (2000)

Education

J.D., summa cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 2001
            Order of the Coif

B.A., cum laude, Carleton College, 1993
            National Merit Scholar

Admissions

• State of Minnesota
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit