Over the last ten years, Kevin Flowers has been successfully representing clients such as Amgen, Serono, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Danisco and Home Depot as first-chair trial counsel in patent infringement cases involving products with sales in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars per year. These include Amgen v. Hoechst Marion Roussel and TKT and Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffmann La Roche (both involving patents directed to recombinant erythropoietin products and processes); Default Proof Credit Card System v. Home Depot and RealSource Communications v. Home Depot (both involving retail gift card systems); Vanderbilt Univ. v. ICOS Corp. (patents covering Cialis®); Cell Genesys Inc. v. Applied Research Systems and Applied Research Systems v. TKT (patents covering methods of endogenous gene activation); Danisco v. Novozymes (recombinant food processing enzymes); Schering v. Geneva Pharmaceuticals (generic versions of Claritin®); Abbott GmbH v. Yeda Research and Development (patents directed to recombinant TNF-binding proteins); Hyseq v. Affymetrix and Affymetrix v. Hyseq (“gene chips”); and Applera Corp. – Applied Biosystems, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. (patents covering ligation-based DNA sequencing methods). Dr. Flowers has also successfully represented clients such as Monsanto in high-stakes interference proceedings in the Patent Office, and has served as first-chair trial counsel in trademark infringement cases in the District Courts.
Dr. Flowers received his law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he was a Managing Editor and contributing author for the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. While in law school, he worked full-time as a law clerk in a high-profile criminal defense practice. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Health Education (Exercise Physiology) from The Ohio State University, and earned his Ph.D. from the Cellular and Molecular Physiology program at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and Graduate School. Dr. Flowers' scientific research led to eleven peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is a member of the Trial Bar for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, a member of the bar of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and is registered to practice in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Abbott GmbH v. Yeda Research and Development*
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Amgen Inc.* v. F. Hoffman LaRoche et al.
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Amgen Inc.* v. Hoechst Marion Roussel and TKT, Inc.
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Area(s) of practice: Pharmaceuticals
Applera -- Applied Biosystems v. Illumina Inc. et al.*
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Brooklyn Bottling v. Jamaica Drink*
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Case Type(s): Trademark Infringement
Cell Genesys v. Applied Research Systems* and Applied Research Systems* v. TKT
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Cytomedix v. Little Rock Foot Clinic*
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Danisco Inc.* v. Novozymes Inc.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Default Proof Credit Card System v. Home Depot U.S.A.*
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
EMKG v. Bisco*
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Finn Sugar Bioproducts v. Raytheon Engineers & Constructors*
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Hyseq* v. Affymetrix
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Innovative USA v. Softplay*
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Livorsi Marine* v. Gaffrig Performance Industries
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Case Type(s): Trademark Infringement
Livorsi Marine* v. Nordskog Performance Products.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Monroe Truck Equipment v. Henke Mfg.*
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Schering v. Geneva Pharmaceuticals, et al.*
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
Vanderbilt University v. ICOS Corp.*
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Case Type(s): Patent Infringement
*Party Represented
