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Colin M. Phelan
Colin M. Phelan

Colin M. Phelan

Patent Agent
Kansas City
+1.816.780.2507
Email Colin M. Phelan @ Colin.Phelan@klgates.com
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Colin Phelan is a patent agent in the firm’s IP Procurement and Portfolio Management practice. His experience includes filing patent applications—including specification, claims, and figures—with the US Patent and Trademark Office; drafting responses to office actions, client reporting letters, and preliminary amendments; performing patent searches; and constructing patentability reports.

Prior to joining the firm, Colin served as a patent engineer as a part of the Boulder office of a full-service intellectual property firm. He also served as a research assistant in the Nanomechanics and Tribology Laboratory at the University of Arkansas.

  • Co-author, “Test Parameters and Material Dependence of the Frictional Properties of Core-shell Nanostructure Textured Surfaces,” Tribiology International, Volume 171, July 2022
  • Co-author, “Effects of Test Parameters on the Frictional Properties of Al/Diamond-like Carbon Core-shell Nanostructure Textured Surfaces,” Tribiology Transactions, Volume 65, April 2022
  • Co-author, “The Effect of Dimensional Parameters of Multi-asperity Surfaces on Friction at the Nanoscale,” Elsevier, Volume 191, April 2021
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