Susanna Chenette is an associate in White & Case's Silicon Valley office and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice. She is a registered patent attorney who focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, patent prosecution, and intellectual property and technology-related transactional matters in industries such as pharmaceuticals and biotech, energy, software, and electronics. She also advises clients on intellectual property matters, including the intellectual property aspects of M&A transactions.

Prior to joining White & Case, Ms. Chenette served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Richard R. Clifton, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Honolulu, HI. While in law school, Ms. Chenette participated in Moot Court (Rendigs Competition) and was an editor on Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. She also spent a semester studying European Union law and comparative legal systems at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Before attending law school, Ms. Chenette worked as a research technician at the University of Chicago, where she researched mechanisms of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in heart and immune cells. Ms. Chenette spent her last year in college completing graduate coursework in biology.

Bars and Courts
California State Bar, 2008
US Patent and Trademark Office

Education
JD, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2008
AB, Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, 2003

Publications
Co-author, "Contractual Provisions Prohibiting the Reverse Engineering of Software: Permissible or Preempted? Future Considerations for the Shrinkwrap License," July 2009 (with William Sloan Coats)
Co-author, "In re Bilski and the Patentability of Processes," May 2009 (with William Sloan Coats)
Note, "Maintaining the Constitutionality of the Patent System," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 35.2, 2008: 221-262