About Kenneth L.
Kenneth L. Tolar combines a technical education and courtroom experience in a career that spans three decades. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering and French from Auburn University in 1985, then turned to law and received his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans in 1993. That mix of technical and legal training set the stage for work at the intersection of chemistry, industry, and intellectual property.
Tolar began his professional life in the private sector. He worked as a sales representative at Liquid Air, Inc. in 1985, served as a district representative for Nalco Chemical in 1986, and took a technical specialist role at Betz Laboratories in 1988. Those early years in chemical companies gave him hands-on exposure to product development, manufacturing issues, and commercial operations.
After law school he served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Edward J. Gaidry in the Thirty-Second Judicial District Court in Louisiana in 1993. He entered private practice in 1994 at Didriksen & Carbo, PLC. Two years later he established his own practice, Kenneth L. Tolar, APLC, and continued to build a practice rooted in intellectual property and federal litigation. In 2017 he joined Tolar Harrigan & Morris LLC as a partner.
Tolar is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and is admitted to practice in Louisiana. His filings and courtroom appearances include the Federal Circuit and the Fifth Circuit, and he is admitted in the United States District Court for both the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana. Membership in the Louisiana State Bar Association is current.
His background in chemical engineering and early industry roles inform the technical side of his legal work. He handles patent prosecution and patent litigation, representing clients in federal court and before the USPTO. He also advises on matters that touch on regulatory and commercial aspects of chemical and related technologies. Cases and filings often require parsing technical details and translating them into legal arguments, a task his combined training supports.
Colleagues and clients see him as a practitioner who bridges technical and legal worlds. He has kept a steady practice over the years that moves between office, lab, and courthouse as needed. He currently practices at Tolar Harrigan & Morris LLC, where he focuses on patent prosecution and litigation.
