Dhavan, Gauri

ZOLL Medical Corporation | Chief Intellectual Property Officer

Gauri Dhavan, Ph.D., J.D., is VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at ZOLL Medical Corporation, a company that develops and markets medical devices and software solutions in the resuscitation and acute critical care field.  At ZOLL, Gauri leads a team of intellectual property counsel in managing all aspects of intellectual property, including patent prosecution and portfolio management, intellectual property litigation, risk mitigation, M&A due diligence, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and data security.  Prior to joining ZOLL, she was a patent litigator at the law firms of Fish & Richardson and Goodwin Proctor.


Gauri currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Corporate Patent Counsel (ACPC) and is the Chair of the ACPC’s Committee on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.  In recent years, Gauri has served on the AIPLA’s Amicus and Patent Law Committees, serving as the co-Chair of the Patent Law Mechanical Arts Subcommittee, and is a cofounder of the Boston chapter of ChIPs.  Gauri is also an active member of the National Charity League and, along with her teenage daughter, volunteers in local charities in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts.  

Gauri received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University.