Karen R. Poppel

Karen's clients come from many industries, including the chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors. She has experience with all manner of intellectual property litigation and has handled matters in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).

Karen holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in chemistry from Emory University, where her graduate thesis work focused on synthetic riboswitches, and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. In law school, she served as a judicial extern to the Honorable John M. Facciola in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.