Kevin Carroll is a partner at GTPP and specializes in patent prosecution, client counseling, opinions on patent validity and infringement, licensing and IP due diligence in the mechanical, electrical and optical arts.

Kevin has prepared and prosecuted patent applications since 1993 in a wide variety of technologies including: optical communications, wireless communications, laser machining, software, computing systems, electronic commerce, consumer products, medical devices, optics / opto-electronics, and energy. Kevin has also provided litigation support and served as an expert witness in patent litigation. Kevin’s clients range from start-up companies and independent inventors to universities and publicly-traded companies.

Prior to beginning his legal studies, Kevin worked as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications in the areas of electrical connectors and machine tools. Kevin was also a clerk in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations at the International Trade Commission, where he provided litigation support and assisted staff attorneys with Section 337 proceedings. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and completed his law degree at Franklin Pierce Law Center (currently the University of New Hampshire School of Law).

Kevin was selected as the top IP attorney in New Hampshire by Business NH Magazine in 2010. Kevin is also a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section. He is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.

Kevin has extensive legal teaching and lecture experience both in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently an adjunct professor at the UNH School of Law where he teaches U.S. Patent Law on-line and Intellectual Property Management.  He has been teaching since 1996 and previously served as the Acting Director of the Patent Practice and Procedure Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center.  Kevin is also the Vice Chair of the NH EPSCoR Statewide Committee and the President of the Notre Dame Club of New Hampshire.

A Concord, New Hampshire resident, his interests include playing guitar, alpine ski racing, biking, running and kayaking.