Stephanie Kato is an intellectual property attorney, whose legal practice focuses on patent prosecution, patent litigation, and worldwide portfolio counseling for companies in a variety of technical areas, including automotive systems, consumer products and packaging, digital security and cryptography, electronics and telecommunications, medical devices, robotics, and software development.

Stephanie's strong engineering background and intellectual property experience enables her to counsel clients on strategic patent portfolio management and technology product development to enhance protection of intellectual property rights. She has also assisted multinational corporations with patent infringement disputes before federal district courts, and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Stephanie maintains an active pro bono practice, including advocating on behalf of survivors of gender-based violence. She also volunteers with Asian American groups in the community, and she was recently elected to the inaugural Junior Board of Directors at the Japanese American Association of New York. She has received accolades from the legal community, including from the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2024) and Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2023, 2024).

Prior to her legal career, Stephanie was a graduate researcher at Stanford University, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to research obstacle detection controllers and vision systems for autonomous vehicles. She is an alumna of the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Columbia Law School.