Bio
Adjunct Professor Matthew Avery is a Partner at Baker Botts LLP. He works on a range of intellectual property matters, focusing primarily on patent prosecution, counseling, and diligence. Professor Avery is a technology generalist, with experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications across a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence/ML, AR/VR, biotech processing and therapeutic proteins, chemical processing, clean tech, consumer electronics, financial tech, online gaming, robotics, semiconductor processing, social networking, sports tech, and many other technologies. He also has experience in FDA regulatory matters, particularly dealing with the Hatch-Waxman Act, ANDA litigation, and the regulation of generic drugs. Prior to teaching at UC Law SF, Professor Avery served as an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University, School of Law.
Professor Avery received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law SF) in 2009, where he graduated second in his class. While at Hastings, he served as a teaching assistant for Legal Writing, Moot Court, and Food & Drug Law. He also worked as a Production Editor on the Hastings Law Journal (now UC Law Journal), and now serves as President of the Journal’s Alumni Board. During law school, Professor Avery served as a judicial extern for Justice Ming Chin of the Supreme Court of California, where he worked on a variety of criminal and civil matters.
Professor Avery is a prolific author and has received several awards recognizing his outstanding contributions to the academic literature, including the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s 2011 Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award, the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2009 Past President’s Award and U.C. Hastings’ 2009 Albert G. Evans Scholarship in Private Enterprise. He was also a finalist in the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2008 Watson Writing Competition. His publications have been cited in amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, in court decisions, and in dozens of law review articles.
Professor Avery received his master’s degree in chemical engineering (focused in biochemical engineering) from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and material science & engineering from U.C. Berkeley. Prior to law school, he spent four years working as a process engineer in Bayer Healthcare’s biotechnology division in Berkeley, California. He is also a Licensed Professional Engineer (chemical) in California
Education
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Stanford University
Master’s of Chemical Engineering -
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering -
UC Law SF College of the Law
J.D., Summa Cum Laude 2009
Accomplishments
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American Society for Pharmacy Law’s Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award
2011 -
American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Past President’s Award
2009 -
Albert G. Evans Scholarship in Private Enterprise
2009