Kevin is the founder of Patent Technics LLC, an intellectual property licensing professional with over thirty years of industry experience, including over eighteen years in patent monetization – acquisition, development, licensing, and litigation. Kevin holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His industry experience includes R&D and product development positions at Tyrex Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola, Huntsman Corporation, Phillips-Sumika, ConocoPhillips, and JemPac. Over the span of his career, Kevin has accumulated invaluable experience in many stages of the IP lifecycle, including inventing, prosecution, support, market analysis and valuation, reverse engineering, claim charting, and licensing/litigation. His areas of interest are patent analytics, IP landscaping, and taxonomy development. Kevin is a named inventor on over 50 US and foreign patents granted in semiconductors, electronics, and materials. He has published on patent search strategy, semiconductor device design and reliability, and polymer materials formulation.