Kelvin L. Varghese

Kelvin Varghese helps clients build and manage domestic and international patent portfolios. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications covering a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence and deep learning, optics and laser systems, consumer electronics and extended reality, medical imaging and surgical devices, data storage and networking, wireless and antenna technologies, telecommunications, semiconductors, and Internet of Things systems.

He also counsels clients on non-infringement and invalidity analyses, freedom-to-operate and patent landscape studies, design-arounds, and written opinions. Kelvin advises clients on competitive intelligence and claim strategy, evaluating client technology alongside competitor products and patent portfolios to shape claim scope and guide patenting strategy for current and planned product lines. He has extensive experience with ex parte patent appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where he has a strong record of reversing examiner rejections, and he handles other post-issuance proceedings.

Kelvin completed an internship at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He worked in the Office of Patent Legal Administration, which decides how patent examiners should apply the law when examining patent applications.

During law school, Kelvin was executive editor of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, which publishes articles on patent law decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

In addition to his law degree, Kelvin holds a BS in physics and minors in mathematics, chemistry and political science.