Contact Katheryn
Direct: 202.516.4021Main: 202.480.2999Katheryn@OandZLaw.comEducation
- J.D. cum laude, Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law, law review Articles Editor
- B.S.E., Arizona State University
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Patent
Katheryn Jarvis Enters
Partner
Katheryn Jarvis Enters is a Partner at Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP, with over 30 years of experience in a broad range of litigation and legal services through her representation of clients in complex, multifaceted intellectual property matters involving copyrights, trademarks, and related commercial matters. Katheryn also leads the firm’s teams on issues related to eDiscovery and data analytics.
An experienced litigator, Katheryn’s practice focuses on content protection and online piracy. She is highly skilled in counseling clients in dispute resolution and collaborative decision-making through creative solutions. Katheryn’s previous in-house corporate experience allows her to contribute strategically sound and innovative legal advice as well as gives her a practical technical understanding of complex and often charged legal issues and decision-making.
Katheryn has extensive experience both in representing clients’ interests before courts and agencies and in providing practical, strategic legal guidance and solutions to global businesses. In addition to copyright and intellectual property issues, Katheryn has represented clients in a broad range of matters in federal and state courts. Katheryn’s experience includes trademark, contract, patent, real estate, tort, and environmental matters, among others. Katheryn has represented clients in regulatory matters and policymaking efforts, and she has experience in negotiations on behalf of clients at contaminated sites globally.
Katheryn has significant experience counseling clients on electronic discovery issues, including developing document retention policies and managing all aspects of preservation, collection, processing, review, and production of electronic documents in complex intellectual property and commercial litigation. She has led large teams in multi-year projects that include intellectual property matters as well as mass toxic tort litigation.
Prior to joining Oppenheim + Zebrak, Katheryn was Associate General Counsel at Celanese Corporation, serving as global environmental health and safety counsel. Prior to that, Katheryn was Special Counsel at Holme Roberts & Owen (now Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner), where her practice focused on complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts and enforcement matters before regulatory bodies. There, she represented numerous Fortune 500 companies in bet-the-company litigation in myriad industries and in courts throughout the country.
Bartz v. Anthropic
We are representing the book publishing industry as Publishers’ Coordinating Counsel in a copyright infringement class action against Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, asserting claims for Anthropic’s unlicensed downloading from pirated sources of millions of copyrighted books, securing a preliminary settlement of $1.5 billion. (Northern District of California)
Cengage v. Google
We are representing Cengage, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill in a copyright and trademark infringement action against Google for its advertising of unauthorized, infringing copies of the Plaintiffs’ textbooks and educational works. (Southern District of New York)
Concord v. Anthropic
We are representing Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music in copyright infringement litigation against Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, for its unauthorized use and copying of over 20,000 musical compositions via its large language model Claude. (Northern District of California)
Higher Education Publishers’ Anti-Counterfeiting Enforcement
We successfully represented a group of the nation’s leading educational publishers (McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Cengage, Elsevier, and Macmillan Learning) in numerous litigation and non-litigation enforcement matters against commercial suppliers, importers, and sellers of counterfeits. We also obtained widespread adoption of industry best practices against counterfeiting, see www.stopcounterfeitbooks.com, a best practices guide to avoid counterfeits that we developed with the support of major publishers in over a dozen federal district courts across the country.
Higher Education Publishers’ Online Anti-Piracy Enforcement
We successfully represented a group of the nation’s leading educational publishers (McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Cengage, Elsevier, and Macmillan Learning) in numerous litigation and non-litigation enforcement matters against hundreds of pirate websites, storefronts, or other illicit online sellers. We have obtained judgments, settlements, TROs, injunctions, asset freezes, and seizures of domain names and financial accounts.
Pearson v. Chegg
We represented Pearson in a copyright infringement litigation against Chegg, a technology company that systematically prepared and sold answer sets to textbook questions. (District of New Jersey)
UMG v. Frontier
We represented Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and ABKCO in a copyright infringement litigation against Frontier Communications, alleging Frontier assisted and profited from its subscribers’ repeated uploading and downloading of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks such as Bit-Torrent. We obtained a favorable ruling denying Frontier’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. The case settled on the eve of trial. (Southern District of New York)
Warner Records v. Altice USA, Inc.
We are representing Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony Music Publishing in a copyright infringement litigation against Altice USA, Inc., an ISP, alleging Altice assisted and profited from its subscribers’ repeated uploading and downloading of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks such as Bit-Torrent. The case involves over 10,000 copyrighted works. (Eastern District of Texas)
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Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset
Jury verdict of willful infringement in Minneapolis for $1.92 million for unauthorized uploading and downloading of music on a P2P network. (District of Minnesota, Eighth Circuit)
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Sony v. Tenenbaum
Jury verdict of willful infringement for $675,000 for unauthorized uploading and downloading of music on a P2P network. (District of Massachusetts, First Circuit)
