Christine Cochran, JD
Associate General Counsel
Phone: (847) 491-3630
christine.cochran@northwestern.edu
Christine joined Northwestern University in 2024 as Associate General Counsel. She is an embedded attorney with Northwestern’s Innovation and New Ventures Office where she advises primarily on Intellectual Property and licensing matters.
Prior to joining Northwestern, Christine was Senior Director, IP Counsel at Invivyd, Inc., where she led all aspects of IP strategy including portfolio management, IP transactional work and alliance management, pipeline development analysis, publication IP strategy, and trademark support for branding. Before Invivyd, Christine was Assistant General Counsel, IP Legal at Astellas US, LLC, most recently in the role of IP lead for international commercial markets, and also leading IP support for public policy and government affairs. Prior to Astellas, Christine was an attorney in private practice for fifteen years in several law firms in Chicago, representing primarily pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in patent practice and adversarial proceedings covering the full product lifecycle from discovery through patent litigation, including Hatch-Waxman litigation.
Christine received an A.B. in Biology from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.