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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
101 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3070
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
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Matthew Avery
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Career
Matthew Avery works on a range of intellectual property matters, focusing primarily on patent prosecution, counseling, and diligence. Mr. Avery is a technology generalist, with experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications across a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence/ML, AR/VR, biotech processing and therapeutic proteins, chemical processing, clean tech, consumer electronics, financial tech, online gaming, robotics, semiconductor processing, social networking, sports tech, and many other technologies. He also has experience in FDA regulatory matters, particularly dealing with the Hatch-Waxman Act, ANDA litigation, and the regulation of generic drugs. In addition to providing legal services for his clients, Mr. Avery is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he teaches courses on Patent Prosecution and Food & Drug Law. He previously taught at Santa Clara University, School of Law.
Memberships
State Bar of California
United States Patent and Trademark Office
California Board for Professional Engineers
Education
Mr. Avery received his J.D., summa cum laude, from U.C. Hastings in 2009, where he graduated second in his class. While at Hastings, he served as a teaching assistant for Legal Writing, Moot Court, and Food & Drug Law. He also worked as a Production Editor on the Hastings Law Journal, and served as President of the Journal’s Alumni Board from 2017-2021. During law school, Mr. Avery served as a judicial extern for Justice Ming Chin of the Supreme Court of California, where he worked on a variety of criminal and civil matters.
Mr. Avery received his master’s degree in chemical engineering (focused in biochemical engineering) from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and material science & engineering from U.C. Berkeley. Prior to law school, he spent four years working as a process engineer in Bayer Healthcare’s biotechnology division in Berkeley, California. He is also a Licensed Professional Engineer (chemical) in California.
J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law 2009
summa cum laude
Thurston Society
First-Year Section Award
Production Editor, Hastings Law Journal
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University 2004
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 2001
B.S., Material Science & Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 2001
Personal
Mr. Avery is a prolific author and has received several awards recognizing his outstanding contributions to the academic literature, including the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s 2011 Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award, the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2009 Past President’s Award and U.C. Hastings’ 2009 Albert G. Evans Scholarship in Private Enterprise. He was also a finalist in the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2008 Watson Writing Competition. His publications have been cited in amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, in court decisions, and in dozens of law review articles.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
An extensive team of specialists oversee Baker Botts L.L.P.‘s collective, which is noted for its ‘dedication to staying at the forefront of the legal landscape’. Christa Brown-Sanford, high-tech specialist Samir Bhavsar and Chad Walters at the Dallas office, life sciences specialist Sandra Lee and Jennifer Tempesta in the New York hub, and Eliot Williams who co-leads from Palo Alto. Walters and Williams are both on the PTAB board, while Lee and Bhavsar have a particular focus on the patent prosecution side of the practice. The team’s workload incorporates a notable number of PTAB trial cases, patent litigation cases, post-grant proceedings before the USPTO and portfolio management matters for its client roster which includes names such as Samsung, Mastercard and Bank of America. There is a range of IP expertise across the group and it is noted that ‘the team’s diversity contributes to a richness of perspectives’. The ‘exceptional’ Matthew Avery in San Francisco is noteworthy for his ‘deep expertise in navigating the intricacies of patent prosecution’, while David Wu in Palo Alto has a particular focus on assisting research and development investment clients in complex cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)