In Brief: A Digest of Chemistry Biotech Projects

Client Success

Successfully enforced patent rights in a patent infringement case involving innovative polyester/polyolefin packaging technology. Case ultimately settled.
Secured finding of noninfringement by invalidating challenger’s patent for a chemical compound.
Secured favorable outcome in defending $500 million claim involving issues of patent misuse, patent exhaustion, implied license, breach of license agreement and unjust enrichment.
Successfully defended an active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer at the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court against patents claiming a composition and method of using a synthetically produced active metabolite of folic acid.
Successfully prepared appeal and presented oral argument to PTAB regarding a peptide for treatment of malignant tumors. PTAB reversed the examiner’s rejections and allowed the patent claims.
Represented Fortune 500 multinational agricultural biotech company in a patent infringement trial. Federal court jury returned a $1 billion verdict on behalf of company.
Process for Fabricating Polymeric Articles (U.S. Patent Nos. 8,052,913 and 8,268,439)
Process for Fabricating Polypropylene Sheet (Brazil Patent No. PI02145006; Canada Patent No. 2,466,832)
Low Pressure Hot Compaction Polymer Process (Canada Patent No. 2,267,326; Japan Patent No. 4121559)
Electrically Conductive Tapes and Process (Canada Patent No. 2,178,942)
Fibers Having Improved Sinusoidal Configuration Concrete Reinforced Therewith and Related Method (Japan Patent No. 4633256)
Composite Secondary Carpet Backing, Method of Manufacture Thereof, and Carpet Made Therefrom (U.S. Patent No. 7,670,660)
Flame Resistant Fiber Blends, Fire and Heat Barrier Fabrics and Related Processes (Australia Patent No. 2005338024)
High Profile Geotextile Fabrics (Canada Patent No. 2,497,381)
Hot Gas Filtration Fabrics With Silica and Flame Resistant Fibers (U.S., Patent No. 8,211,195)
Method and System for Manufacturing Foamed Polyolefin Tapes at Cost Effective Line Speeds (U.S. Patent No. 8,246,873)
Pyramidal Fabrics Having Multi-Lobe Filament Yarns and Method for Erosion Control (U.S. Patent No. 8,043,689)
Turf Reinforcement Mat Having Multi-Dimensional Fibers and Method for Erosion Control (U.S. Patent Nos. 7,820,560 and 8,500,372)
Advanced Drug Development and Manufacturing (European Patent No. 2084519; Japan Patent No. 5143841)
Ferroelectric Infrared Detector and Method (U.S. Patent No. 7,687,775)
Flow Method and Apparatus for Screening Chemicals Using Micro X-Ray Fluorescence (U.S. Patent Nos. 7,519,145 and 7,929,662; Singapore Patent No. 109345)
Method and Apparatus for Detecting Explosives (U.S. Patent No. 7,939,803)
Method for Detecting Binding Events Using Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (U.S. Patent No. 7,858,385)
Method of Fabrication of Fibers, Textiles and Composite Materials (U.S. Patent No. 8,361,566)
Modeling of the Radiation Belt Magnetosphere in Decisional Timeframes (U.S. Patent No. 8,428,916)
Nanophosphor Composite Scintillators Comprising a Polymer Matrix (U.S. Patent No. 7,834,319)
Portable Sample Preparation and Analysis System for Micron and Sub-Micron Particle Characterization Using Light Scattering and Absorption Spectroscopy (U.S. Patent No. 7,986,399)
Improved Polyolefin-Based Adhesive Resins and Method of Making Adhesive Resins (Canada Patent No. 2,497,265)
Improved Process for Producing Adhesives (China Patent No. ZL03821062.2)
Conversion Coating for Aluminum and Its Alloys and Articles (U.S. Patent No. 8,388,825)
Improved Conversion Coating for Magnesium, Beryllium and Their Alloys (U.S. Patent No. 8,388,826)
Improved Ion Exchange and Regeneration Process for Separation and Removal of Iron (III) Ions From Aqueous Sulfuric Acid Metal Ion-Containing Solutions (U.S. Patent No. 5,582,737; Chile Patent Reference No. 74575CL)
Improved Receptor Capture Assay (Australia Patent No. 2002367937; European Patent No. 1472365)
Dynemicin Analogs: Syntheses, Methods of Preparation and Use (U.S. Patent No. 5,527,805)
Controlled Release Aqueous Emulsion (U.S. Patent No. 5,672,358)
Thiol Sulfone Mealloprotease Inhibitors (U.S. Patent No. 6,013,649)
Particulate Alumina and Process for Removing Metal Ions from Water (U.S. Patent No. 7,186,671)
Bifunctional Phenyl Monophosphonic/Sulfonic Acid Ion Exchange Resin and Process for Using the Same (U.S. Patent No. 6,232,353)
Method for the Chromatographic Separation of Cations from Aqueous Samples (U.S. Patent No. 5,651,883)
Dissolution and Processing of Cellulose Using Ionic Liquids (U.S. Patent No. 6,824,599)
Grafted Methylenediphosphonate Ion Exchange Resins (U.S. Patent No. 5,618,851)
Small Molecules That Covalently Modify Transthyretin (U.S. Patent No. 8,703,815)
Immunostimulating 7-Deaza-7-Oxa and 7-Deaza-7-Oxo-Analogs of 8-Substituted-Guanine-9 (1-Beta-D-Aldoglycosidyl) Derivatives and Methods of Treating Test Animals (U.S. Patent No. 5,166,141)
2’s3’s-Dideoxy-2’s,3’s-Didehydro-7,8-Disubstituted Guanosines and Their Immunostimulative Effect (U.S. Patent No. 5,441,942)
Multivalent Metal Ion Extraction Using Diglycolamide-Coated Particles (U.S. Patent No. 7,157,022)
Catalysts
An Organo-Lewis Acid as Cocatalyst for Cationic Homogeneous Metallocene Ziegler-Natta Olefin Polymerizations (U.S. Patent No. 5,856,256)
Homogeneous Alpha-Olefin Demerization Catalysts (U.S. Patent No. 5,500,398)
Homogenous Catalysts for Stereoregular Olefin Polymerication (U.S. Patent No. 5,455,317)
Metallocene Catalyst Containing Bulky Organic Group (U.S. Patent No. 5,502,017)
Method for Catalytic Polymerization of Substituted Acrylates (U.S. Patent No. 5,312,881)
Method of Polymerizing Exo-Methylene Cyclic Organo Compounds Using Homogenous Ring-Opening Catalysts (U.S. Patent No. 5,300,598)
Olefin and Cycloalkene Polymerization with Organolanthanide Catalysts (U.S. Patent No. 4,801,666)
Organozirconium Catalysts for the Hydroamination of Olefins (U.S. Patent No. 5,110,948)