With an extensive mechanical engineering and R&D background, Drew Hagerty is a skilled patent attorney with extensive experience managing complex global patent issues for a Fortune 50 company. Drawing on his experience as an engineer, inventor, and business partner, Drew offers comprehensive patent counsel that combines practical legal strategies with real-world applications.
His career spans the full spectrum of intellectual property, including patent strategy and portfolio development, freedom-to-practice analysis and opinions, invalidity and design around endeavors, due diligence and patent-valuation considerations, litigation and dispute strategy, support and resolution, and post-grant efforts. One of Drew’s favorite things to do is competitive landscape analysis for commercialization efforts.
Before joining the firm, Drew spent multiple years as an associate patent attorney at Woodcock Washburn (now part of Baker Hostetler) and then went in-house at the Procter & Gamble Company for 18 years, supporting several of its business units to help them achieve their goals and objectives while minimizing the company’s liability.
Additionally, Drew worked as a process engineer for Eastman Chemical Company and then in product development for Johnson and Johnson before attending law school. He spent considerable time analyzing competitors’ patents and pursuing his patents as an engineer, ultimately catalyzing his love for developing and protecting intellectual property.
- Temple University, Juris Doctor
- University of Tennessee, BS Engineering Science & Mechanics
- Ohio State Bar
- United States Patent & Trademark Office