Practice Areas:
Patent Prosecution: Biotechnology and Chemistry
Technology Transactions and Licensing
Intellectual Property Litigation

Summary of Practice:
Joe Kovarik is a principal with extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property law, with an emphasis in patent prosecution, patent litigation, mediation of patent disputes and in the licensing of intellectual property rights. He advises both small and large entities, including state universities, with respect to how best to build, maintain and protect their intellectual property assets. Joe has negotiated complex development option agreements, licensing agreements and settlement agreements involving a wide array of technologies, including those encompassed by his technical training in biochemistry and molecular, cellular and developmental biology. For almost twenty years, Joe has been involved in various intellectual property litigations and has training and experience in alternative dispute resolution, and in particular, mediation of intellectual property disputes.

Joe has taught intellectual property law classes to law students at the University of Denver as an adjunct professor. He also served as in-house patent counsel for Advanced Display Technologies in Boulder, Colorado and thus understands, from a first person perspective, the demands and concerns of in-house counsel, especially with respect to how best to achieve goals and objectives in an expeditious and cost effective manner. Joe also has had previous experience at other large law firms in Colorado and California.

Bar Admissions:
Colorado, 1986
California, 1989
District of Columbia, 1990
United States District Court, District of Colorado
United States District Court, Northern District of California
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
United States Supreme Court, 1992
United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1988

Education:
University of Colorado (B.A., Biochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology; Philosophy, 1981)
University of Colorado (Graduate study in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, 1981-1982)
University of Denver College of Law (J.D., 1986)

Professional and Trade Memberships:
American Bar Association, Biosciences Division
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
Licensing Executives Society
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
California Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section
American Intellectual Property Law Association

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