Professionals
Practice Areas
- Additive Manufacturing Practice
- Automotive Practice
- Design Patents Practice
- Due Diligence in IP Acquisitions
- Expedited Patent Examination
- Foreign & PCT Patent Filing
- Inter Partes Review
- Invalidity Opinions
- Mechanical Engineering Practice
- Non-infringement Opinions
- Opinions
- Patent Landscaping and Risk Analysis
- Patentability Opinions
- Patents
- Post Grant Practice
- Product Clearance
- Right to Practice Opinions
- Strategic IP Portfolio Development and Management
- Trade Secrets
- Utility, Design, and Plant Patent Filing with the USPTO
Technologies
- Aerospace & Aeronautics
- Automotive Technology
- Computer Science & Software
- Electrical Engineering & Electronics
- Energy
- Environmental Engineering
- Food Science
- Internet & E-Commerce
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Devices
- Metallurgy & Ceramics
- Optics
- Polymer & Materials Science
- Semiconductor Devices & Processing Methods
- Telecommunications
Honors
- Delaware Valley Engineering Association Award for Engineering Economics Research Paper, 1996
- International Magnesium Association for an Engineering Design Paper, 1994
Admissions
- United States Supreme Court, 2007
- United Stated District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 2004
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2004
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2003
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2003
- Supreme Court of Virginia, 2003
- Virginia, 2003
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2002
Education
George Mason University School of Law, J.D., with an emphasis in Intellectual Property Law, 2002
Temple University, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, cum laude, 1996
- Excellence in Senior Engineering Design Project
Languages
- Hebrew
Victor Kernus concentrates his practice on mechanical, electrical, and medical technologies for a wide range of clients. He is experienced in both patent drafting and patent prosecution and patent appeals. Victor is experienced in both domestic and foreign prosecution of patent application relating to a wide range of technological fields including aerospace, automotive technologies, power distribution, power generation and power conversion, rotary electric machines, electro-mechanical devices and circuits, micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS), packaging technologies as well as natural resource exploration and recovery and natural resource post recovery processing technologies. He has written more than 1,000 patent applications and is an inventor on one U.S. patent. Victor is also an active volunteer with Casting for Recovery, an organization that supports those currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer and breast cancer survivors, and is a volunteer instructor and Fly Fishing guide with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, an organization that supports disabled veterans.
Experience Highlights
Partner, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2015-present
Counsel, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2013-2014
Associate, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2007-2012
Senior Associate, Diederiks and Whitelaw, PLC, 2000-2007
Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Department of the Navy, 1996-1999
News
- February 28, 2023
Temple University named Victor Kernus to their Continu/um spotlight of 50 Temple engineering alumni and faculty who stand out among their peers. The list celebrates the first 50 years of Temple’s College of Engineering. Victor, BSME '96, stands out as one of only a handful of intellectual property attorney honorees, recognizing his career success and his compassion for others as a mentor and volunteer.
- February 27, 2023
11th grade student inventor Damian Earley received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an invention he presented at the Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention U.S. Nationals in 2021 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, where Damian won the Cantor Colburn and General Motors Patent Application Award. He received comprehensive intellectual property law services from Cantor Colburn that included guiding him through the patent application process.
- December 18, 2019
Victor Kernus will deliver the alumni commencement address during the Temple University College of Engineering fall commencement ceremony on December 18, 2019. He will be joined by Jezreel Konstantinos, a candidate to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, who will deliver the student address. Victor is an alumnus of the school, having earned a bachelor's in mechanical engineering, cum laude.
- January 20, 2017
Nearly every Monday night for the last three years, Cantor Colburn partner Victor Kernus has been teaching fly tying to the participants of the Fort Belvoir Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing (PHWFF) program. PHWFF is a program dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and veterans through fly fishing and fly tying education and outings.
Events
- June 3, 2017USPTO, Alexandria, Virginia
Cantor Colburn is proud to have been a returning sponsor of the The National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Cantor Colburn sponsored the Most Patentable Award, and provided pro bono legal assistance to the winner, which includes a patent search, patent filing, and prosecution of a patent application.
- March 3, 2016Fairfax, Virginia
Partner Victor Kernus will present Patent Basics to the George Mason University chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Intellectual Property Owners Association, U.S. Patent Office Practice Committee Member
Virginia Bar Association
Community/Civic Involvement
Board of Visitors, Temple University College of Engineering
