Kathi Vidal

Athlete, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Connector, Engineer, Foodie, Lawyer, Photographer, Social entrepreneur

As a partner at Fish & Richardson, the world’s largest intellectual property law firm, Kathi Lutton leads and tries high-profile, high-stakes, and high-tech patent litigation in a myriad of technologies, including semiconductor technology, telecommunications, circuits and systems, computer technology, software, and Internet applications. She advises clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups (including SAP, Sun, Palm, NVIDIA, Red Hat, VMware, Johnson Controls, Legrand/Watt Stopper, Applied Materials and Cisco) on their portfolios, patent protection, patent enforcement, patent defensive efforts, patent prosecution, and other intellectual property matters. Ms. Lutton works closely with clients to devise inventive ways of achieving optimal success. Inside and outside of the courtroom, Ms. Lutton is often called upon as an expert on case strategy and hot topics in the law. Ms. Lutton also leads the firm's litigation group and is a member of the firm’s Operations Committee. She manages the firm's largest practice group which comprises approximately 60% of the firm with 250 lawyers in 11 offices worldwide. Ms. Lutton has also guided firm strategy through her service on the firm’s Management Committee. Ms. Lutton has received numerous accolades for her work, repeatedly being named one of the top women litigators in the state of California, one of the most influential women in Silicon Valley and one of the Top 75 intellectual property litigators in California. Before starting a legal career Ms. Lutton received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, was an engineer/manager at General Electric for five years and a former NCAA Volleyball player. Ms. Lutton is the mom of two wonderful young boys. In her spare time, Ms. Lutton runs marathons, mentors women through the Fortune Most Powerful Women mentoring program and otherwise and advances women’s causes. She is also currently the President of BigPinkRibbon.com and is advising and running a couple start-ups.

Entrepeneur, Law - Intellectual Property