Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020 Rob Walat is Wolf Greenfield’s President and Managing Partner. Rob has been practicing for over 20 years and provides strategic advice to clients ranging in size from start-up companies to large global corporations on domestic and international patent issues. His practice focuses on competitive analysis, counseling, and patent portfolio development. He is particularly experienced in areas of patent prosecution, due diligence to support investment and M&A activity, opinion work, foreign patent oppositions, and patent litigation support.
Rob’s work primarily relates to materials, mechanical, and chemical technologies including polymeric materials, electronic materials, semiconductors, ceramics and metals, and polymeric materials. Rob’s technical proficiency also includes areas of nanotechnology, batteries, medical devices, displays, and LEDs.
Rob has served two terms on the firm’s Executive Committee and has chaired the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee.
Prior to joining Wolf Greenfield, Rob was a materials scientist at a start-up company working in the field of polymeric materials, where he was a contributing inventor on several pending patents. He also worked as a semiconductor process engineer at Intel Corporation
