IP litigator Wesley Overson Jr. has joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton after 25 years at Morrison & Foerster.

Overson practices across a broad range of technologies, including medical devices and biotechnology. Life sciences has been a challenging area for patents since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics decision, Overson said, but he thinks COVID-19 has provided a wake-up call about the importance of protecting inventions in areas such as diagnostics.