Sutherland’s intellectual property practice provides a full range of services to companies needing to protect and exploit chemical intellectual property rights, both domestically and internationally. We assist clients with patent prosecution, litigation and counseling; trademark prosecution, litigation and counseling; copyright litigation and counseling; licensing; trade secret and technology counseling and litigation; domain name registration and dispute resolution; due diligence reviews in connection with mergers and acquisitions; patent mapping; and intellectual property audits and evaluations.
Sutherland has a growing number of attorneys with undergraduate and advanced degrees in biological chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering and petroleum engineering. Many of those attorneys have also worked as professors, biochemists, researchers or engineers within a variety of industries, such as paper. Their technical knowledge and backgrounds enable a faster and more in-depth understanding of the areas in which our clients have intellectual property interests.
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In the traditional chemical industries, we have experience in a broad range of technologies including pharmaceutical products, various minerals and materials technologies, paints, emulsion polymers, rheology control processes, paper manufacture, food processing equipment, floor mats, spray nozzles, water treatment and filtration, rigid and flexible plastic packaging, packaged beverage manufacture, polymeric nonwoven fabrics, printing, carbon black, polymer extrusion equipment, latex gloves, catalysis, organic synthesis, soil science, xerography, electro-chemistry, ceramics, refrigeration controls, tufting machines, environmental controls, chemical processing equipment, agricultural chemicals and textile chemicals and equipment.
On the litigation side, we have represented a number of clients with ties to the chemical industry. For example, we have represented an industrial minerals manufacturer relating to patent infringement allegations asserted against it. We have also been involved in a number of suits involving textile companies.
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