Kevin Davis, Ph.D., is Of Counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson's Houston office. He focuses his practice on preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications in the US as well as coordinating foreign prosecution of patent portfolios. He has prepared and prosecuted patents in a broad spectrum of oil & gas, chemistry, pharmaceutical, and medical device technologies, including polymers, organic synthesis, chemical catalysis and separation, reaction control systems, active pharmaceutical ingredients, pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, polymorphic and amorphous forms, chlorinated hydrocarbons, fuel cells, carbon dioxide removal technologies, reverse and forward osmosis systems, cancer vaccines and immunotherapies, targeted drug delivery systems, wound care compositions, cosmetic compositions, medical devices, wellbore treatment fluids and compositions, and downhole tools and methods.

Kevin also has experience preparing Patent Due Diligence, Non-Infringement, Invalidity, Freedom-To-Operate and Patentability Opinions for chemistry, pharmaceutical, medical device, and oil & gas clients. Kevin also has experience serving as counsel on Inter Partes Review and Derivation proceedings in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), as well as an appeal of a PTAB decision at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Before earning his law degree, Kevin was a geology professor and lead instructor at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, and interned with a Fortune 50 oil and gas company and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office’s Environmental Crimes Division in Houston.