Chemicals
Members of our Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Patent Team apply their legal expertise together with their education and experience in chemistry, chemical engineering and materials science to provide our clients with legal services including:
- Patentability Opinions
- Freedom to Operate Opinions
- Patent Preparation, Prosecution and Procurement
- Representation in Post-Grant Proceedings in the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Including Interferences, Reexaminations, Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Reviews and Covered Business Method Reviews
- Due Diligence Studies
- License counseling, negotiation and drafting
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Litigation
Areas in which the Team has experience and has represented clients include:
- Adhesives
- Analytic Chemistry
- Batteries
- Biochemistry
- Building Materials
- Catalysts
- Circuit Boards
- Diagnostic Materials
- Dyes
- Electronic Components
- Food Chemistry
- Cosmetics
- Gas Exchange
- Industrial Chemicals
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Ion Exchange
- Light Emitting Devices (LEDs and OLEDs)
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Metallurgy
- Nanotechnology
- Organic Synthesis
- Packaging Materials
- Personal Care Products
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plastics
- Polymer Chemistry
- Semiconductors
- Silicon Materials
- Superconductors
- Surfactants
- Textiles
Related Representative Matters
- Procured family of patents on multiple inventions in eight countries for technology which client licensed in a multi-million dollar deal
- Leveraged inventorship correction rules to recover rights in inventions misappropriated by our client’s overreaching customer while maintaining the business relationship intact
