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Lucas Watkins

Associate

 

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.

 

Practice Groups and Other Information

Education Information

  • Florida State University, B.S., 2000, magna cum laude
  • University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 2009, Concentration in Physical Chemistry, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2002-2005
  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2009, cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2009
  • Patent Bar, 2011

News

Study by Hughes Hubbard Patent Agent Cited in Wall Street Journal (May 2011)

Highlighted Publications

  • Etan S. Chatlynne, Stephen Kenny & Lucas Watkins, Investigating Patent Law’s Presumption of Validity Part II: An Empirical Analysis of How Unconsidered Evidence And Evidentiary Standards Affect Jury Verdicts, 2011 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 46
  • Lucas Watkins, How States can Protect their Policies in Federal Class Actions, 32 Campbell L. Rev 285 (2010)
  • “Illuminating the Mechanistic Roles of Enzyme Conformational Dynamics,”J.A. Hanson, K. Duderstadt, L. P. Watkins, S. Bhattacharyya, J. Brokaw, J.-W. Chu, and H. Yang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104, 18055–18060 (2007)
  • “Quantitative Single-Molecule Conformational Distributions: A Case Study with Poly-(L-proline),” L.P. Watkins, H. Chang, and H. Yang, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 5191–5203 (2006)
  • “Detection of Intensity Change Points in Time-Resolved Single Molecule Measurements,” L.P. Watkins and H. Yang, J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 617–628 (2005)
  • “Information Bounds and Optimal Analysis of Dynamic Single Molecule Measurements,”L.P. Watkins and H. Yang, Biophys. J., 86, 4015–4029 (2004)
  • “Biindanylidenes: Role of Central Bond Torsion in Nonvertical Triplet Excitation Transfer to the Stilbenes,” J. Saltiel, J.M. Mace, L.P. Watkins, D.A. Gormin, R.J. Clark, O. Dmitrenko, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 16158–16159 (2003)
  • “Direct Photoisomerization of the 1,6-Diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatrienes. Medium Effect on Triplet and Singlet Contributions,” J. Saltiel, S. Wang, L.P. Watkins, D.-H. Ko, J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 11443–11450 (2000)

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