Carter Reeb focuses his practice on all aspects of U.S. and international patent prosecution, review, and counseling. Carter prosecutes patent applications in over 40 jurisdictions around the world, and regularly provides opinions regarding patentability, freedom-to-operate, invalidity, standard essentiality, non-infringement, patent valuation, and IP strategy during IPO, as well as for mergers & acquisitions.
Carter’s professional experience includes R&D, engineering consulting, environmental engineering, and industrial facility management. Carter often handles IP related to software and computer science applications, 4G/LTE/5G, high fidelity audio applications, plastics and resin formulations, multimedia encoding and compression, cryptography, financial technologies, machine learning, IoT devices, 3D printing, metallurgy, batteries, robotics, safety equipment, and medical devices.
Carter received his Ph.D. and B.S. from North Carolina State University, where his research spanned thermochemical and biochemical fuels production, biorefinery design, computer modeling for chemical engineering applications, hydrocarbon remediation technologies, and remote environmental monitoring technologies. Before joining Alston & Bird, Carter worked as a patent agent in Boston, a senior consultant, an environmental engineer, an entrepreneur, and an adjunct professor.