Kyle W. Howarth

Kyle’s litigation experience includes developing infringement and invalidity theories; conducting fact and expert discovery, including depositions; drafting briefs and motions; and participating at trial. His work helps protect and defend clients’ valuable innovations relating to catalysts and coating technologies, semiconductors, polymer science, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and gene therapy treatments, among other related technologies. 

While in law school, Kyle worked at Finnegan as a summer associate. He also published in the Duke Law Journal a Note, “Carrots, Sticks, and Space Patents,” which proposed solutions to potential problems with the current framework for patents in outer space.

Kyle has a background in fluid mechanics and material science stemming from his degree in chemical engineering. Prior to law school, he conducted research aimed at improving space enabling operations, working in a lab funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Specifically, his research included studying resonance pattern formation in microfluids and electrostatic-levitated particles with the goal of creating improved heat exchangers in low-gravity environments and developing enhanced material properties in metals. In addition to collaborating with researchers at NASA, Kyle coordinated with international researchers in France and Japan and was awarded a scholarship to conduct his research at the University of Lille in France.