Kraig Haverstick

Profile

Kraig is a patent agent with more than 20 years of experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications across a broad range of disciplines, including chemical, biotechnology, mechanical, and electrical arts. He works with individual inventors and companies of all sizes, guiding them through every stage of the patent process.

Kraig joined McNees in 2015 after a decade of practice as a patent agent. He assists clients with invention disclosures, patent application drafting and filing, office action responses, examiner interviews with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, coordination with foreign agents on international filings, patentability searches, and infringement analyses. His work is supported by a strong technical foundation in chemical engineering and materials science.

He holds degrees in chemical engineering and conducted graduate research focused on chemical synthesis of model amino acid and peptide amphiphiles. His doctoral work, titled Fundamental Behavior of a Model Biomolecular Amphiphile System, focused on characterizing amphiphile systems using Langmuir-Blodgett techniques and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. He later held two post-doctoral research appointments, at Lehigh University in 1999 and Cornell University from 1999 to 2003.

During his academic career, Kraig co-authored articles in the peer-reviewed journals Bioconjugate Chemistry, Biomaterials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biomaterials Science – Polymer Edition Langmuir, and Macromolecules. Kraig also presented his research in podium presentations at four conferences during his graduate studies.

Representative experience

• Managed the patent portfolio of a small automotive technologies company.
• Manages a large patent portfolio for a large fluorochemical company.
• Prosecutes patent applications in a range of polymer technologies, including biocompatible polymers and fluoropolymers.