Banner & Witcoff lawyers are educated as chemists and chemical engineers. Many of our attorneys have experience in the field, as former employees of engineering, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies.

Attorneys practicing in the chemical and related arts routinely deal with legal problems in organic and inorganic chemistry, chemical processing and plant control, catalysis, metallurgy, food chemistry and preparation, custom catalysts for petrochemical processes, genetically engineered pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

The firm maintains a growing U.S. and foreign prosecution practice involving chemical and biotechnology related inventions. We assist clients with procuring and enforcing intellectual property rights in the fields of meat processing and additives, non-milk dairy food manufacturing, animal food and pharmacology, and non-woven textiles.

We also prepare and prosecute patent applications and obtain patents directed to inventions involving combinatorial chemistry, alloy compositions, surface chemistry, molecular diagnostics, artificial skin and bone mending materials, compounds having dental applications, pharmaceutical compounds and methods of medical treatment, laser applications in medicine, drug delivery devices and implants, capacitors, electrolytic solutions, batteries, polymers, food chemistry and preparation, and artificial heart valves.

Banner & Witcoff also has in depth experience in patent interferences, including technical areas of pharmaceuticals, recombinant DNA, polymer chemistry, methods of shaping plastics, encryption technology, and chemical sensors.