Non-residential Fellow Colette Vogele heads the firm Vogele & Associates advising individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations on a range of intellectual property questions (including copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, and privacy issues) as they relate to technology, new media and the arts. As a fellow, she has recently completed co-authoring the Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution.
During the 2004-2005 academic year, Vogele held a residential fellowship and led litigation on two of the Center's copyright cases: Golan v. Gonzalez, a case challenging the constitutionality of removing thousands of works from the public domain, and Somma v. Great Ormond Street Hospital, a case defending an author's right to build on works that have entered the public domain.
Prior to joining the Center, Vogele litigated copyright, trademark, anti-counterfeiting, and trade secret misappropriation cases at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP. She also worked with Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Silicon Valley litigating patent and trade secret disputes in technical fields including medical devices, semiconductors packaging, circuit simulation software, and DVD technology.
Vogele grew up in the Pacific Northwest and is an Honors Program graduate in Political Science from the University of Washington. She earned her law degree with honors at George Washington University Law School where she was the Executive Articles Editor for the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, held two internships with the United States Department of Justice, and externed for a United States Magistrate Judge.
When she's not practicing law, she's known to tap into her Swiss roots and cook up a good fondue (download her mother's recipe here).