KAREN MILLANE WHITNEY
Member
Email: kwhitney@dsiplaw.com

Overview:

• J.D., Seton Hall University Law School, cum laude, 2001;
  B.S., Cornell University, with distinction, 1992.
• Admitted to the NJ bar in 2001 and the MA bar in 2007.
• Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 2002.

Karen focuses her practice on all aspects of patent law, including worldwide patent procurement, opinion work and clearance studies, due diligence, and IP counseling in the fields of chemical engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. She counsels clients in a range of technologies that have a variety of needs.

More Detail:

Karen joined Diehl Servilla in 2006 after five years of intellectual property law experience at Woodcock Washburn LLP in Philadelphia, where she participated as an associate in both patent prosecution and litigation activities. She became a member of Diehl Servilla in 2008.

Throughout her career, she has counseled clients in technical areas such as chemical formulations, latex articles and processing, knitted products, personal products, air pollution catalysts, synthetic lubricants, water filtration devices, medical devices, drug delivery devices, small molecule pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors.

As a patent holder with experience as a chemical engineer in both research and manufacturing environments, Karen easily relates to inventors and technical personnel. Out of college, she worked in a laboratory for Mobil where she worked on clean fuel technologies for about a year. After that, she spent five years in a manufacturing facility making synthetic oils, where she was a plant engineer, quality control supervisor, and a technology transfer engineer. While in law school, she concentrated on intellectual property and was a member of the Seton Hall Law Review.

Karen is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is also a member of the bars of New Jersey and Massachusetts.

In her community, Karen is active at her children’s schools as a board member of the parent’s group and as a library volunteer. She enjoys nature walks, bike riding, and going to baseball games with her family.

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