REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Kevin’s extensive representative experience includes:
- Helping a company build a portfolio of more than 150 domestic and foreign patents and applications to protect its pioneering technology for a new generation of implantable drug delivery and biosensing technology.
- Representing an internationally recognized research university in patenting a microneedle technology for transdermal drug delivery and diagnostic fluid sampling.
- Assisting a company in developing a patent strategy for protecting a novel antimicrobial composition for use in water treatment applications.
- Providing a patent clearance opinion for a new heart surgery instrument.
- Representing another renowned research university in building a patent portfolio covering a biodegradable implant device for controlled drug delivery in urological therapies.
- Helping a company successfully assert its patent on a mineral filler used in the papermaking process against an infringing competitor.
- On behalf of a client, successfully challenging two patents of a competitor through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office re-examination proceeding.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of patent law (2013)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Rising Stars” (2005, 2006)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Intellectual Property Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Intellectual Property Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- Member, Georgia Biotechnology Industry Organization (GaBio)
- Advisory Board Member, For Pete’s Sake Foundation
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Co-author, “Use of Incorporation By Reference in Patents,” Law Journal Newsletters—Patent Strategy & Management (March 2007)
- Author, “2007 Intellectual Property—Topics for Corporate Lawyers,” ICLE in Georgia 26th Annual Business Law Institute (2007)
- Panelist, “Hot Topics in the Medical Device Industry,” SEMDA 2013 Investor Conference (February 19, 2013)
- Speaker, SEMDA 2010 Investor Conference (March 25, 2010)
- Speaker, SEMDA 2008 Investor Conference (March 13, 2008)