Scott E. Kamholz (sometimes misspelled as Kamholtz or Scott Kamholtz or Scott E. Kamholtz )

Where I am

• I am a Patent Attorney at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, where I prepare and prosecute patent applications in a wide variety of disciplines, including biotechnology, physics, mechanical engineering, and medical devices.
• I am married to Karen Levine Kamholz, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Attending Neonatologist at Boston Medical Center.
• My brother, Andrew Kamholz, Ph.D., runs Edge Embossing, which designs and produces microfluidics devices using soft embossing techniques.

Where I've Been

• I grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (that's Exit 4 on the Turnpike) and graduated from Cherry Hill High School East in 1989. While there, I most enjoyed playing clarinet in the Wind Ensemble, editing the school newspaper, Eastside, and attending the now-defunct Governor's School of the Arts.
• I moved to Miami for college, where I studied Biomedical Engineering and graduated magna cum laude in 1993.
• Immediately after college, I entered the MD/PhD Program at the University of Miami School of Medicine. I studied developmental biology in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and received the Ph.D. in 1999 and the M.D. in 2001.
• After medical school, I attended Boston College Law School and graduated in 2004. I became a lawyer that year.

My Writings

Science and Medicine

• Kamholz and Zuniga, “Medications and Poison Safety.” Elder Update (Florida Department of Elder Affairs), 10(9), 22, 2000.
• Kamholz, “Steel Factor promotes lodgement of hematopoietic progenitor cells in mouse liver.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Miami, 1999.
• Goni, Kamholz, Garzoli, and Olson, “Dynamics of the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence based on inverted echo sounders and altimetry.” J. Geophys. Res., 101(C7), 16,273-16,289, 1996.

Law

• Kamholz, “Maximizing patent term in the USA.” 2 J. Intell. Prop. L. & Prac. 593 (2007).
• Kamholz, “The Proscription Against Broadening Claims in Reissue and Reexamination: Conflict Between the Federal Circuit and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.” 88 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc’y 124 (2006).
• Kamholz, “Patent Term Adjustment for Fun and Profit.” Intell. Prop. Today, Aug. 2006, at 24.

• I work in the Patent Group at Foley Hoag LLP.
• I visit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office" website every day.
• I find the Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man a useful reference for genes and gene-related diseases.
• The Classical Archives has an impressive collection of encoded music.
• I host www.toolpat.com, a page of tools for patent prosecution. My favorite tool is a full-text MPEP search (that's the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure).

Get in Touch

My email address is in the form firstname at lastname dot net.