Katherine E. Brock

Katherine Brock is an attorney with the firm’s Technology Transactions and Intellectual Property team.

Katherine assists clients with intellectual property matters, strategic transactions and complex negotiations. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating agreements with universities and research institutions on behalf of early-stage biotech and pharmaceutical companies, as well as providing strategic and regulatory counseling to health systems and digital health companies. She also counsels clients on matters involving management and assertions and defense of their intellectual property rights and prosecutes trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to joining Smith Anderson, Katherine worked in the Boston office of an international firm. She also has an extensive background in healthcare consulting, having served hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers and laboratories in matters of revenue cycle, strategic pricing and payor contracting. Over many years, she facilitated negotiations between health systems and insurance companies concerning reimbursement for emerging technologies in medical devices and pharmaceuticals and managed comprehensive payment reviews by identifying root causes of revenue loss and implementing revenue cycle process improvements to prevent future loss.

Outside of the office, Katherine enjoys golf, hiking and traveling with her husband, Alex.

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Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2022
  • Dean Suzanne Reynolds Award for Excellence in Trademark Law
  • Notes and Comments Editor, Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law
• University of Georgia
  • M.P.H., Health Policy and Management, 2013
  • B.S., Microbiology, 2011

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