Kevin Meek

Practice Areas

Kevin J. Meek focuses his practice on patent litigation, prosecution and licensing. He is the managing partner of the Firm’s Austin office. Kevin has extensive experience litigating disputes involving intellectual property rights in a wide variety of advanced technologies in federal courts across the country, in the International Trade Commission and in post-grant proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Kevin represents companies seeking to enforce their intellectual property rights, as well as those accused of infringement. He often litigates patent and trade secret disputes involving a wide range of technologies, including consumer products, complex software, and semiconductor and telecommunications applications.

Kevin prepares and prosecutes patent applications covering a broad spectrum, of inventions, including semiconductors and integrated circuits, telecommunications systems, and mainframe, midrange and minicomputer-based software, as well as a wide variety of mechanical and industrial devices.

On the transactions side, Kevin handles a variety of corporate transactions involving technology transfers. He counsels clients in the high-tech sector, particularly in software licensing, patent enforcement and other corporate transactions involving the perfection, valuation or transfer of technology assets.

Kevin maintains a very active practice in the biotechnology arena. He has been involved in prosecution and licensing efforts in implantable devices, orthopedic devices and dental devices. He also represents companies that deal in gene therapies, genetic diagnostics and chemistries, as well as systems used to support therapeutic and diagnostic applications.

Kevin frequently speaks on patent, copyright and trademark law. He has published numerous papers on many intellectual property topics, including developments in copyrights, enforcement of patents and copyrights in software, patentability of software and other computer-related inventions, trademarks in the advertising industry and licensing and intellectual property principles for entrepreneurs.

While in law school, Kevin researched the chemical and electrical aspects of semiconductor device processing. He also studies crystallography and chemical and laser processing of semiconductor materials.

Career

Joined Baker Botts in 1990; admitted to partnership 1997.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Personal

Texas A&M University, BSEE, 1985; University of Texas School of Law, JD, 1988.