Vijay S. Kumar Counsel

Patent attorney Vijay Kumar leverages his legal, technical, and business experience to protect his clients' most valuable innovations. Whether working with emerging companies or international corporations, he prides himself on thoroughly understanding each client's core business and developing a customized intellectual property (IP) strategy consistent with their short and long-term goals.

Focusing his practice on patent prosecution and strategic development of patent portfolios, Vijay has extensive experience with technologies in the energy, chemical, and medical device sectors. Within the energy and chemical sectors, he has worked on matters involving hydrogen production and storage, fuel cells, oxygen-enriched combustion burners, thermionic energy converters, pressure swing adsorption units, battery systems, mineral extraction and processing, underground coal gasification, carbon capture, chemical processing, biomass conversion, solar cells, metallurgical-grade coke production and handling, and other alternative energies.

Within the medical device sector, Vijay has experience with intravascular systems, neuromodulation, implantable stimulation devices, orthodontic appliances, microfluidic devices, cardiac pacing, vascular fluid therapy, and therapeutic ultrasound systems. Utilizing his background in chemical and electrical engineering, Vijay has also worked with clients in semiconductor design and fabrication, wireless speakers, software applications, and other consumer devices.

In addition to procuring patents in these sectors, Vijay regularly analyzes third-party patent portfolios regarding validity and freedom-to-operate concerns, and mines client patent portfolios to identify assets for licensing and divestment purposes. He also has experience with both investor-side and company-side patent-related due diligence, having represented venture capital firms, institutional investors, multinational corporations, and emerging companies.

Before beginning his legal career, Vijay worked in the energy sector at a global industrial gas company and held various engineering roles within operations, design, and commissioning.

Vijay has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch and selected as a "Washington Rising Star" in recent years.