Catlan M. McCurdy

Experience
Catlan McCurdy is an associate in Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.’s Intellectual Property group. She focuses her practice on the enforcement of trademarks and copyrights. Catlan assists clients with many of their legal IP needs, including:

• protecting products by advising action in false advertising and unfair competition claims
• aiding in the transfer of intellectual property assets from one entity to another
• securing intellectual property rights by creating assignments and agreements

Before joining Winthrop & Weinstine, Catlan gained experience as a law clerk at a local law firm and as a research assistant for two professors at the University of Minnesota Law School. In addition to becoming familiar with IP-related organizations—Creative Commons, Frontier Foundation and IP Watch—Catlan edited scholarly articles; researched and drafted legal memoranda, legal precedents, motions, contractual agreements and discovery requests; and interpreted statues and regulations relevant for litigation.

Catlan is an author on the firm’s DuetsBlog, a blog dedicated to bridging the gap between legal and marketing types. She is also actively involved in Minnesota Women Lawyer’s student-to-attorney mentoring program.

Bar Admissions
Minnesota, 2011

Community Involvement

• Minnesota Women Lawyers
  • Student-to-attorney mentoring program
• Received student volunteer recognition, University of Minnesota Law School Public Service Program

Honors & Awards

• Received two Book Awards in Copyright and in Race, Law and Medicine
• University of Minnesota Law School Dean’s List
• Maynard Pirsig Moot Court
• Student Intellectual Property Association Executive Board member
• Women’s Law Student Association Executive Board member
• Honors English undergraduate program
• George Washington University Dean’s List

Articles & Presentations
Author on DuetsBlog.

“The Prior Informed Consent Process: Why the Convention on Biological Resources Is Not Working.” (Won Book Award.)

“Investigating the Decline of Edna St. Vincent Millay Through Form and Gender.” (Honors Thesis.)