Rex W. Watkins, Ph.D.
Experience
Rex Watkins is an associate in the firm's Technology and Intellectual Property
group. Rex's practice focuses on patent procurement—both domestic and
international—for life science, medical device, and mechanical apparatus clients. In
addition to patent drafting and prosecution, Rex has experience with freedom-tooperate analyses, validity and infringement opinions, IP due diligence, patent
litigation, and licensing.
Rex has extensive technical expertise in the life sciences, including: protein
chemistry; enzymology; protein expression and purification; genetics; fluorescence;
small molecule, peptide, and protein drugs; drug delivery; antisense nucleic acids;
microarrays; RNA technologies; chemical synthesis; polymer chemistry; organometallic
Associate
catalysts. Rex also has significant patent prosecution experience with medical
devices, including vascular access technologies, stents, inflation systems, and
Salt Lake City, UT
embolics.
(801) 578-6922 direct
(801) 578-6999 fax
Prior to joining the firm, Rex was a judicial extern for Judge Randall R. Radar at the
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also has experience as a NSF Graduate
rex.watkins@stoel.com
Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a research assistant at Utah State
University, and as an intern at a small biotechnology company.
Education
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2013, magna cum laude
Professional Honors and Activities
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Member, American Chemical Society, 2004-2015
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Committee Member and Giles Rich Moot Court Competition Liaison, IP Section of
the Utah State Bar, 2015
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Subcommittee Chair, Utah Innovation Awards, Medical Devices, 2014-2015
J. Reuben Clark Law School, J.D.,
Senior Editor, BYU Law Review
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University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Ph.D., Biochemistry, 2010
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Utah State University, B.S., Chemistry,
2005, summa cum laude
Publications
Admissions
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"Ribonuclease S redux" (co-author), Chemical Communications, 2011
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Utah
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"Fluorogenic affinity label for the facile, rapid imaging of proteins in live cells"
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(co-author), Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009
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"Divalent metal complexes of an amide-appended N3O-donor ligand: Synthesis,
structural and spectroscopic features, and amide methanolyisis reactivity" (coauthor), Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2008
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"Amide hydrolysis reactivity of a N 4O-ligated zinc complex: Comparison of kinetic
and thermodynamic parameters with those of the corresponding amide
methanolysis reaction" (co-author), Inorganic Chemistry, 2006
Rex W. Watkins, Ph.D.
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"Synthesis and characterization of a series of N 3O-ligated mononuclear Mn(II) halide complexes" (co-author), Inorganica Chimica
Acta, 2006
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"Manganese (II) chemistry of a new N3O-donor chelate ligand: Synthesis, X-ray structures, and magnetic properties of solventand oxalate-bound complexes" (co-author), Dalton Transactions, 2005
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"Mononuclear nitrogen/sulfur-ligated cobalt(II) methoxide complexes: Structural, EPR, paramagnetic 1H NMR, and
electrochemical investigations" (co-author), Dalton Transactions, 2004