Industries

Chemistry / Chemical Engineering

Marshall, Gerstein & Borun possesses a half-century of experience in the practice of patent law for the chemical arts, dating to the firm’s founding in 1955. Many of our attorneys are also chemists, biochemists and chemical engineers who, in addition to their legal skills, hold advanced degrees in their respective fields and possess practical industrial experience.  This specialized combination of skills, coupled with insights gained from creatively assisting our clients over the years, ensures that we can address your chemical-related intellectual property issues.

Marshall, Gerstein & Borun provides comprehensive legal services relating to the chemical arts, including:

• Procuring, enforcing and defending patents in diverse chemical-related areas such as catalysts, coating compositions, cosmetics and personal care products, food and beverage chemistry, fuel chemistry, pharmaceuticals and related formulations, polymers, process engineering, semiconductors, and surfactants
• Prosecuting interferences in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Directing  foreign patent prosecution, including oppositions
• Managing, evaluating and licensing chemical patent portfolios
• Opinion and due diligence counseling

Representative Clients

• AMCOL International Corporation
• BASF Corporation 
• Blyth, Inc
• BP America Inc.
• HallStar Corp.
• Cambridge Display Technology Limited
• Celanese Ventures GmbH
• The Chemithon Corporation
• The Dial Corporation
• Hospira, Inc. 
• Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
• ICOS Corporation (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Eli Lilly)
• Lipo Chemicals, Inc.
• MonoSol, LLC
• Newell Rubbermaid Inc.  
• Penford Corporation
• Pfizer Inc. 
• The Procter & Gamble Company
• USG Corporation
• Valspar
• Xaar Technology Limited
• Numerous universities and hospitals