Areas of Concentration
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Patent Litigation
- Trade Secret Litigation
- Patent Prosecution and Opinions
- General Litigation
- Product Liability & Toxic Torts
Mr. Watkins has scientific expertise in chemistry, molecular biology, scientific instrumentation, including laser optics and programming, and statistical methods. During Mr. Watkins’ graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, he designed and built a scanning confocal microscope with double APD detectors to monitor the fluorescence of single molecules on a photon-by-photon basis. He used FRET and advanced statistical methods to detect conformational changes in fluorescently labeled protein molecules. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Optimal Statistical Methods for Analysis of Single Molecule Data.”
Mr. Watkins’ other research has involved organic and inorganic synthesis, femtosecond optics, and the Q-Chem software package, He has done coursework at the graduate level in: Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Optics, Statistics, and Inorganic Chemistry.
Since joining Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Mr. Watkins has worked in the areas of patent counseling, including freedom-to-operate searches and opinions, patent litigation, and product liability. Mr. Watkins’ experience in patent litigation includes infringement/noninfringement analyses and litigation strategy, including development of discovery objectives.