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Harvey S. Kauget
100 South Ashley Drive, Suite 1900
Tampa, FL 33602-5311
Direct: (813) 472-7886
Fax: (813) 472-7570
e-mail: harvey.kauget@phelps.com

Service Areas

Intellectual Property

Practice

Harvey is a partner in the firm's regional business practice group in the Tampa office. He practices in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent and trade secret litigation, patent prosecution, IP risk management, portfolio licensing and client counseling. His litigation and patent prosecution experience includes semiconductor processing equipment, software and business methods, LEDs, computer/telephony integration, computer networking, laser printing, encryption, prepaid payment card systems, coupons delivery systems, scanning devices, electronic commerce, davit lifts, pressing apparatus, airboat transmissions, gaming devices, refrigeration apparatus, recycling construction debris, drinking cups and lids, ceiling fans, medical sampling devices, disposable blood measuring devices, suture anchors, sleds for exchanging nuclear control rods, jewelry display cases, cement formulations, urine analysis formulations, firearms, fence post systems and tidal gate systems. 

Harvey has had several patent infringement jury trials and has litigated intellectual property matters throughout the country, including Florida, New York, New Jersey, New Orleans, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, Indiana and California. He has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Eleventh Circuit. In addition to his intellectual property litigation experience, Harvey is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

Prior to entering private practice, Harvey had significant experience as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He also has previous career experience teaching chemistry and physics. He is among a select group of lawyers recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Florida Legal Elite and Florida Super Lawyers

Education

  • Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, J.D., 1995
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S. in Materials Engineering/Electronic Materials Concentration, 1985
  • S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, B.S. in Chemistry, 1984

Memberships/Affiliations

  • Member: The Florida Bar, New York State Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association
  • Admitted to Practice: District Courts in and for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida; Florida; New York; New Jersey; Registered Patent Attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Publications/Speeches

  • "Rapid Thermal Processing of Silicon Dioxide Films in Metal-oxide Semiconductor Capacitors," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (1985)

 
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