Chemical innovation drives advances in engineered materials, specialty chemicals, catalysts, pharmaceuticals, sensors and instrumentation, and nanotechnology. Competitors watch these spaces closely, and unprotected discoveries become lost opportunities.
Effective protection requires attorneys with true technical fluency in all aspects of chemistry, including material compositions, synthetic pathways, molecular structures, and complex chemical processes and their use in systems and devices. We speak the language of your research and development team.
Our Chemistry Experience
For decades, we have protected chemical innovations across materials science, analytical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, polymers, catalysts, textiles, and specialty chemicals. Our doctorate-level team brings lab bench experience and commercial experience to patent strategy, navigating evolving standards while building portfolios that withstand validity challenges and litigation.
With our strong technical background, including five professionals with a Ph.D. in chemistry with almost ten decades of collective legal and corporate research experience, we closely work with inventors to evaluate molecular structures, materials composition, reaction pathways, and formulation stability in view of their invention and the technical landscape to secure enforceable protection of products and methods in the form of strong patents.
From discovery-stage compounds and materials to scaled manufacturing processes to systems and devices that contain or detect chemical components, we collaborate closely with research and development teams throughout the commercialization lifecycle.
Some of our chemistry experience includes:
- Materials Science: Engineered materials, polymers, glass composites, and coatings that require protection across composition, manufacturing process, and application claims.
- Energy and Battery Technology: Battery chemistries, energy storage materials, and electrochemical systems powering electric devices and vehicles and renewable energy solutions.
- Pharmaceuticals: Drug compounds, formulations, delivery systems, and therapeutic methods requiring sophisticated chemical and biological understanding.
- Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials, nanoparticles, and nanoscale chemical processes requiring precise claim drafting at the molecular level.
- Industrial Chemistry: Chemical processes, catalysts, and manufacturing innovations requiring protection across method and composition claims.
- Drug Delivery Devices: New chemical compositions and composites for the delivery of drugs for wound healing and tissue regeneration.
- Analytical Chemistry: Instrumentation and sensors for chemical detection, including artificial intelligence integration, that require a creative approach to develop device and method claims
- Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies: Environmentally friendly processes for converting methane to useful hydrocarbons, compositions and systems for capturing environmental pollutants, renewable materials, polymers and systems for efficient and environmentally friendly capture of fossil fuels, and efficient chemical transformations to capture and transform energy resources to address modern sustainability challenges.
Protecting Chemical Innovations That Matter
Our depth of knowledge in the chemistry arts allows us to create intellectual property that ensures innovators own their chemical discoveries. We share the excitement innovators feel toward their creations and work to protect chemical innovations with the same care we would apply to our own.