Karthika Perumal

Karthika Perumal is a Houston intellectual property attorney and office managing partner whose practice covers patent strategy, licensing, technology transactions, and commercialization. She advises global businesses, research institutions, and growing companies on protecting and using inventions and other intellectual property assets. Her work spans life sciences, energy, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and technology-related industries. Karthika also coordinates multidisciplinary teams when transactions or intellectual property issues involve several legal and commercial needs.

Karthika earned a Bachelor of Technology from Anna University in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 2001. She later received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center in 2011, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Her research and legal backgrounds give her direct experience with the scientific and commercial questions surrounding patents. That combination is particularly relevant when clients need to protect technical discoveries and structure transactions involving complex inventions.

Karthika handles patent prosecution, portfolio development, intellectual property due diligence, and freedom-to-operate assessments. She negotiates collaborations, licenses, joint ventures, supply agreements, and technology transactions. Her representative experience includes patent work concerning battery technologies, biological compositions, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas processes, and industrial catalyst systems. She has also developed trade secret management programs for multinational businesses and advised on intellectual property issues connected with financing and acquisitions.

Karthika is a Certified Licensing Professional and has served as president and chair of Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada. She has received recognition in Chambers USA, IAM Patent 1000, and The Best Lawyers in America for areas including patent, technology, and trade secrets law. She is admitted to practice in Texas and New York and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Karthika Perumal combines scientific training, intellectual property law, and transaction experience to support innovation and commercialization strategies.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Womble Bond Dickinson
• Member, State Bar of Texas

Licensed State

• Texas

Education

• University of Houston Law Center
  Juris Doctor (JD) (Magna Cum Laude)

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