Kraig Haverstick

Overview

Kraig prepares and prosecutes patent applications for individual inventors and companies across chemical, biotechnology, mechanical, and electrical technologies.

He assists clients throughout the patent process, including invention disclosures, patent application drafting and filing, office action responses, examiner interviews before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, foreign filing coordination, patentability searches, and infringement analyses.

Kraig’s work is informed by his background in chemical engineering and materials science. His experience includes technologies involving polymers, fluorochemicals, biocompatible materials, and other chemical and materials-based innovations.

Before joining McNees in 2015, Kraig spent a decade in patent practice. He also completed graduate and postdoctoral research in chemical synthesis, biomolecular amphiphiles, and materials characterization at Lehigh University and Cornell University. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Bioconjugate Chemistry, Biomaterials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, and Macromolecules.