Associate – Denver
DD: 720.307.8382
Professional Profile
In her intellectual property practice, Kelly Hughes focuses on patent defense litigation. She offers clients a unique combination of technical, entrepreneurial and legal acumen.
Kelly’s legal experience includes time at a robotic and digital technology toy company. She also worked for Justice Allison Eid of the Colorado Supreme Court and for the Honorable Judge Wasserman of the Colorado 17th Judicial District. Additionally, Kelly performed prior art searches and patentability analyses for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Technology Transfer Office.
Before becoming a licensed attorney, Kelly gained valuable work experience in the medical field. Kelly’s medical experience includes working as a research assistant for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She helped conduct research on the effects of ENT2 and Per2 on cardiac and pulmonary inflammation. Her work was published in several journals.
Licenses
Kelly is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado and before the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office.
Publications
- Hughes, Kelly, Trans(parency) Pacific Partnership: The Downfall of the TPP?, 15 Colo. Tech. L.J. 487 (2017)
- Bonney S, Hughes K and Eckle T, Anesthetic Cardioprotection: The role of adenosine, Curr. Pharm. Des., September 19, 2014
- Eckle T, Hughes K, Ehrentraut H, Brodsky KS, Rosenberger P, Choi DS, Ravid K, Weng T, Xia Y, Blackburn MR, Eltzschig HK, Crosstalk between the equilibrative nucleoside transporter ENT2 and alveolar Adora2b adenosine receptors dampens acute lung injury, FASEB J.April 2, 2013
- Bonney S, Hughes K, Harter PN, Mittelbronn M, Walker L, Eckle T. Cardiac Period 2 in myocardial ischemia: Clinical implications of a light dependent protein, Int. J. Biochem Cell Biol. January 3, 2013
Education
J.D., University of Colorado Law School
- Entrepreneurial Law Certificate
- University of Colorado Law School Public Service Pledge
B.S. in psychology, minor in biology, University of Colorado Denver