Chemicals & Advanced Materials
Patent Protection for Chemicals & Advanced Materials.
Chemical Patent Experience
Chemical and materials innovations often depend on distinctions that may appear small on paper but produce important differences in composition, processing, performance, or commercial utility. Patent protection in these fields requires careful treatment of chemical terminology, formulation details, process conditions, and the relationship between structure and function.
Polymers, Catalysts & Specialty Chemicals
Our background includes chemical engineering and patent work involving urethanes, polyols, catalysts, specialty chemicals, coatings, ceramics, adhesives, PVC, oxo alcohols, allyl alcohols, neopentyl glycols, and other organic and inorganic materials. This experience spans both chemical compositions and technologies involving the manufacture, processing, and use of those materials.
Protecting Chemical Compositions and Processes
We assist clients in protecting new formulations, material systems, chemical processes, manufacturing improvements, and product applications. Depending on the invention, a patent strategy may address compositions, methods of manufacture, methods of use, process parameters, performance characteristics, or combinations of these concepts.
Materials, Coatings & Industrial Applications
For chemical companies, materials developers, manufacturers, and inventors, the objective is to develop patent claims that capture the commercially meaningful aspects of the technology while supporting a specification detailed enough to address both current products and reasonable variations of the invention.
Related technologies
Patent Strategy for Chemical Innovation
Our experience with chemical technologies includes materials used in coatings and surface technologies, including automotive coating systems.
Chemical and materials innovations also frequently play an important role in energy, battery, and fuel-cell technologies.
New chemical compositions may also create advantages in manufacturing technologies and industrial processes.
Learn more about our approach to patent preparation and prosecution for technically complex inventions.
Discuss Your Technology
Developing a new technology or preparing to file a patent application? Contact us to discuss your invention and intellectual property objectives.