Benjamin D. Kirk

Benjamin Kirk is a patent attorney with a background in mechanical engineering and a focus on helping clients protect innovations with both utility and design patents across a range of technologies, including industrial, consumer product, and medical device technology sectors. He supports clients with drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications, as well as providing freedom-to-operate and invalidity analyses and intellectual property strategy guidance. Benjamin also has experience supporting patent litigation.

Benjamin’s representative industrial technologies include exploratory drilling systems and methods, downhole instrumentation, textiles, hard flooring products, carpet and artificial turf, firearms, water distribution systems, manufacturing equipment, warehouse logistics systems, automation, drones, delivery vehicles, building framing, electrical transmission, gantries, robotics, and fluid control systems. Benjamin’s representative medical technologies include wound treatment dressings and systems, heart valves, prosthetics, implants, orthodontics, orthopedics, wheelchairs, electrical stimulation, exoskeletons, medication packaging and delivery, and electrode arrays. Benjamin’s representative commercial product technologies include shopping carts, clothing, swimsuits, underwear, bottles, cups, headwear, luggage, furniture, and barbers’ equipment.