Kevin Duffy

With a strong business background and industry-tailored approach, Kevin counsels companies in a wide range of intellectual property transactions to help them exploit their intellectual property assets. He helps companies accomplish their goals by advising, negotiating, and drafting complex technology-based transactional agreements, including patent and trademark licenses, software licenses, technology transaction agreements, joint development agreements, sponsored research agreements, asset transfers, among others.

Kevin also advises on all intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. Kevin’s work includes conducting due diligence assessments, for both buy- and sell-side transactions, of key intellectual property issues that impact deal value.

Kevin provides clients comprehensive offering by not only advising on IP transactions, but also by developing and protecting the underlying IP assets themselves. Kevin’s patent preparation and prosecution experience is extensive. With a deep background in energy, nuclear, mechanical, and electrical technologies, he helps clients identify and protect their patent rights by working closely with client technical teams to “harvest” inventions, analyze the competitive patent landscape, draft and prosecute patent applications, and develop strategic plans for managing and growing patent portfolios.

Armed with his deep technical background, Kevin has advised on all stages of Inter Partes Reviews, from petition to oral hearing. He works seamlessly with IP litigation teams to provide technical insight and drafting support for complex IP litigation matters, including by conducting invalidity and infringement assessments in support of district court litigation. Litigation teams also turn to Kevin to negotiate and draft settlement and cross-licensing agreements to mitigate post-litigation risk.

With Kevin’s experience, he adeptly works across practice areas to mitigate clients’ IP transactional risk, while helping them leverage their IP in support of establishing a competitive advantage.