KEVIN M. DRUCKER, Esq.
Patent Attorney

Mr. Drucker practices in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, including prosecution, licensing, and litigation. He also advises regarding patentability, patent validity, trademark clearance and registrability, and patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, including determining whether infringement exists, ways of preventing infringement, and designing around to avoid infringing others’ intellectual property rights. Mr. Drucker counsels clients regarding intellectual property management issues, including identifying protectable intellectual property and implementing intellectual property policies and procedures.

Mr. Drucker works with clients ranging from multinational and Fortune 500 high-technology companies to startups and sole inventors.  Mr. Drucker’s patent prosecution experience includes electrical and electromechanical technologies, mobile telephony, wireless and optical communications, network, storage, software, and computer-related technologies, business method patents, medical devices, semiconductor devices and manufacturing, sporting goods, consumer products, automotive and aerospace components, and military and law enforcement technologies.  Mr. Drucker’s trademark clients span a wide range of products and services, including clothing, cosmetics, jewelry, eyewear, medical devices, health products, sporting goods, furniture, software, environmental consulting, telecommunications, restaurant, fitness, and legal services.

Mr. Drucker has tried numerous cases before both state and federal courts, and his litigation experience includes handling utility and design patent, trademark, and copyright infringement cases, at both the pre-trial and trial stages. Mr. Drucker has received court-certified training in commercial mediation.

Mr. Drucker has over 12 years experience in computer programming and consulting for clients including Schlumberger Industries, PaineWebber, Marriott Hotels and Resorts, and the University of Virginia.

Prior to joining the Firm in 2004, Mr. Drucker practiced with the law firms of Hayes Soloway, P.C. in Tucson, Arizona, and Hofheimer Nusbaum, P.C. (now Williams Mullen, P.C) in Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Drucker received his B.A. (1993) and J.D. (1996) from the University of Virginia and his LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer from Franklin Pierce Law Center (2000).

Mr. Drucker is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Arizona and is a member of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He has been certified as an Engineer-in-Training by the New Hampshire Joint Board of Licensure and is registered to practice as a Patent Attorney before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Drucker is also a member of the Benjamin Franklin Inn of American Inns of Court, an organization devoted to the practice of intellectual property law.

Articles authored by Mr. Drucker include “Bars to Patentability: A Guide for the General Practitioner,” published in Arizona Attorney Magazine (January 2005), and his speaking engagements include “Intellectual Property Law Primer,” Inventor’s Association of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona, 2004), “The Effect of the Internet on the On-Sale Bar of U.S. Patent Law,” Arizona State Bar Convention (Phoenix, Arizona, 2004), “Patent Law Primer,” IdeaFunding Workshop (Tucson, Arizona, 2003), and “Year 2000 Problem-Related Litigation: What To Expect” (Norfolk, Virginia, 1999).  Mr. Drucker was an editor and contributor to an encyclopedia article for legal practitioners in American Jurisprudence on “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property and Technology Disputes” (55 Am Jur Trials 483).

Mr. Drucker is fluent in French and German and is proficient in Spanish.