Alyssa Kava is an intellectual property attorney in Leydig’s Boulder office whose practice focuses on patent prosecution. Her technical areas in patent prosecution the life sciences, the chemical arts, and materials science.
Dr. Kava attended the University of Denver Sturm College of Law during which time she worked as a summer associate and law clerk in Leydig’s Boulder office. Before law school, Dr. Kava received her Ph.D. in chemistry at Colorado State University. In that role, she researched electrochemical analysis at the point-of-care developing new paper based analytical devices for multiplex detection in multiple working conditions and new carbon composite electrode materials for point-of-care applications including the detection of heavy metals in environmental and biological samples.