Scott E. Kamholz M.D., Ph.D.

Scott Kamholz combines his experience as an Administrative Patent Judge at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and background in medicine, biophysics, and engineering to advise clients in the life sciences sector on a variety of complex patent litigation matters and PTAB proceedings. Dr. Kamholz was the first PTAB judge to enter private practice after presiding over AIA trial proceedings from start to finish. He has assisted clients in dozens of PTAB proceedings since returning to private practice.

University of Miami

B.S. | Biomedical Engineering

Honors: Magna cum laude, General Honors, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society

University of Miami

Ph.D. | Physiology and Biophysics

Academic Merit

University of Miami

M.D.

Boston College Law School

J.D

IP Consultant

2021 - Current

Head of IP

Tessera Therapeutics, Inc.

2021 - 2021

Of Counsel

Covington & Burling LLP

2017 - 2021

Partner

Foley Hoag LLP

2015 - 2017

Administrative Patent Judge

Patent Trial and Appeal Board, United States Patent and Trademark Office

2012 - 2015

Member of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which reviews adverse decisions of examiners upon applications for patents, reviews appeals of reexaminations, and conducts derivation proceedings, inter partes reviews, and post-grant reviews of patents.

Registered Patent Attorney

Foley Hoag LLP

2001 - 2012

Advised clients of all sizes on a range of intellectual property issues.

Maximizing Patent Term in the United States

2 J. Intell. Prop. L. & Prac. 593 (2007)

Patent Term Adjustment for Fun and Profit

Intell. Prop. Today, Aug. 2006, at 24

The Proscription Against Broadening Claims in Reissue and Reexamination: Conflict Between the Federal Circuit and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

88 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 124 (2006)

2012 Rising Star selectee (declined due to judicial appointment)

Massachusetts Rising Stars

Current

Activities: American Intellectual Property Law Association, Member

Current

Activities: American Bar Association, Member

Current

Activities: Boston Patent Law Association, Member

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 2016

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers

Since 2004

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Agency)

Since 2001

U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

U.S. Court of Federal Claims

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 2016

• PTAB Trials