catherine lacavera

Catherine Lacavera is the Chief Legal Officer at Color Health, Inc., a healthcare technology company dedicated to improving access to healthcare for everyone. Previously, she served as Vice President at Google, overseeing global litigation, employment and regulatory investigations, and managing more than 300 attorneys and technical advisors. Her team won more than 1000 patent and other intellectual property matters, including multi-billion dollar industry defining copyright cases against Viacom and Oracle, the cell phone wars against Apple and Microsoft, and trade secrets claims against Uber. She advised on complex licenses and acquisitions, including the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion and Nest for $3.2 billion, the sale of Motorola Home to Arris for $2.2 billion, and a $490 million multi-party license with TiVo.

Catherine has a B.A.Sc. in Computer engineering and a J.D./M.B.A. from the University of Toronto. She received an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Toronto, was named one of Fortune’s top 40 under 40, and one of the most influential people in the world of IP, and was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

She is admitted to practice law in New York, Massachusetts, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Registered In-House Counsel in California.