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Houston
JPMorgan Chase Tower
600 Travis St, Suite 7100
Houston, Texas 77002-2912
713.238.8000 Phone
713.238.8008 Fax |
Education
J.D., 1994
University of Houston Law Center
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1984
University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Merit Scholar
Membership
- American Bar Association (Intellectual Property
and Litigation Divisions)
- Houston Bar Association
- Houston and American Intellectual Property
Law
- Associations, and the College of the State
Bar of Texas
- North American Catalysis Society
- Southwest Catalysis Society
- AIChE
Timothy S. Westby specializes in the chemical arts, including
the litigation and prosecution of patents for the chemical
and petrochemical industries, and provides intellectual property
counseling for process and product development such as patent
opinion preparation, patent portfolio development, and pre-litigation
management.
After receiving his Doctorate, Dr. Westby was a research engineer
at the Shell Development Company's Westhollow Research Center
for ten years in Corporate R&D and Environmental R&D.
Dr. Westby's research areas have included: gas-solid reaction
kinetics, combustion and reaction engineering, heat transfer,
coal gasification and combustion, process economic modeling,
risk-based corrective action for waste site cleanup assessment,
and high-temperature inorganic melt chemistry, among others.
Dr. Westby continues to maintain numerous engineering and
professional society affiliations including the North American
Catalysis Society, the Southwest Catalysis Society, and the
AIChE, presenting "Is Your Patent Worth the Paper It's
Printed On?" at the AIChE National Meeting (1999). He
has been a Visiting Scholar at Rice University in the Chemistry
and Materials Science Departments since 1999.
Dr. Westby is admitted to practice before the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Texas, and in the Texas State Courts. |
