Kevin M. Bronson

Biography

Kevin Bronson, a registered patent attorney, focuses on all aspects of patent practice, including prosecution, patentability, infringement evaluation, validity, design around, freedom to operate, and post-grant proceedings. In addition, Mr. Bronson provides patent expertise for patent litigation, licensing and other contractual matters, and intellectual property portfolio evaluation. Mr. Bronson earned both a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies from St. John Fisher College in 2015. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Buffalo School of Law, in 2020, with a concentration in Intellectual Property.

While at St. John Fisher College, Mr. Bronson was awarded a research fellowship during 2014-2015 and was given the opportunity to present his research at Experimental Biology 2015 in Boston. Mr. Bronson was also a captain of the St. John Fisher College Men’s lacrosse team and received the Empire 8 Sportsman award during his senior year. During law school, Mr. Bronson was an extern for the University at Buffalo Technology Transfer office where he evaluated faculty inventions for patentability.

Mr. Bronson files over 400 international applications annually, including those for multiple Fortune 500 companies, has successfully prosecuted broadening reissue applications, provided handfuls of freedom to operate opinions for non-U.S. companies considering U.S. market expansion, negotiated licensing deals with major U.S. universities, and services a gambit of technology fields, including robotics, software, biotechnology, medical devices, mechanical, and design protection. Mr. Bronson is also a professional patent illustrator for many of Simpson & Simpson’s design and utility cases. He also provides CAD modelling services for various companies and inventors, not only for patent illustrations, but to assist in prototyping.

Mr. Bronson also leads the Simpson & Simpson intellectual property portfolio evaluation for Buffalo’s annual 43North accelerator program competition.

Outside of his work at Simpson & Simpson, Mr. Bronson provides training and demonstrations for intellectual property-specific AI tools to fellow patent practitioners. His presentations about the ethical use of AI tools in patent practice have been given at the National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meeting and Conference, the Intellectual Property Owners Association Annual Meeting, and at the Association of Intellectual Property Firms Annual Meeting, along with a Continuing Legal Education webinar for Law.com. Mr. Bronson also serves as the Chair of the NativityMiguel Middle School of Buffalo Junior Board and is a member of the Fortified Advisory Board.