Rick Matos

Director, Dr. Matos has over thirty-four years of experience in the pharmaceutical arena as a researcher, patent practitioner, and consultant and over thirty years of experience as a patent practitioner. He is an author of scientific articles and an inventor of pharmaceutical and chemical process technologies.

By integrating IP, business, R&D, regulatory, and commercialization strategies and by building and managing robust large patent portfolios, he has helped client startup corporations raise capital and achieve valuations of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars before being sold or even going public. Many domestic and international pharmaceutical products are covered by patents he has prosecuted. Dr. Matos earned his doctorate in Bioorganic Chemistry from Texas A&M University after having completed his studies on the chemical and enzymatic synthesis of penicillin, amino acids, and other natural products. He worked for The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company as a Senior Research Scientist primarily on biotech large-scale process development and drug discovery in many therapeutic areas while advancing to Project Team Leader within the R&D department. After helping establish the pharmaceutical IP practice in the Dallas office of a major firm, Dr. Matos founded Innovar, L.L.C. in March of 2000.