Intellectual Property Technical Experience Areas

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Bryan Cave’s IP lawyers have worked on patent matters in the following areas.

Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology

• Agricultural biotechnology, including pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and nitrogen fixation
• Biodegradable plastics
• Cancer therapies and diagnostics
• Cell culture/fermentation media and methodology, including methods and compositions for commercial-scale high efficiency transfection
• Cell-sorting processes and compositions, e.g., for preparing gender enriched sperm compositions
• Coating and deposition technologies
• COX-2, 5-lipoxygenase, and NF-KB inhibitors
• Contrast agents and other compositions for use in MRI and optical imaging polymers
• CytokinesDye compositions for staining nucleic acids and proteins
• DNA labeling and detection technology
• Drug discovery systems
• Electrocatalysts and electrochemical devices, including electrochemical substrates and films
• Fusion proteins
• Genetics
• Gene therapy medical assays
• High throughput combinatorial chemistry methods and compositions
• Immunodiagnostic devices and related assays
• Monoclonal antibodies and related diagnostic assays
• Nucleic acid probes and related assays
• Nucleic acid (DNA, RNA) isolation and purification
• Nucleic acid polymerase compositions and amplification processes
• Nutritional supplements
• Pet foods
• Pharmaceutical compounds and related compositions and therapeutic methods
• Polymers, polymerization catalysts and processes
• Polyurethane foams
• Small organic molecules, polymers, and mimetics, including taxanes, morphinan alkaloids, metalloprotease inhibitors and other peptide inhibitors, and peptide mimetics, for a wide range of medical conditions
• Soybean processing and related soy-based food products
• Synthetic blood

Materials Science

• Electrocatalysts for use in fuel cells and other electrochemical cells
• Granular polycrystalline silicon materials and manufacturing methods for use in the solar and the single-crystal silicon industries
• Liquid-crystal display devices
• Nanoporous organosilicate films and particles
• Polyelectrolyte complex films having a wide variety of biological and chemical applications
• Single crystal silicon materials and manufacturing methods for use in the semiconductor industry

Electrical, Mechanical, Optical, E-Commerce

• Air bags
• Aircraft systems, such as ejection seats and flight control systems
• Air handling equipment
• Aircraft interface and control systems
• Automotive parts
• Battery charging systems
• Batting cages
• Biofeedback devices
• Biometrics
• Box and carton manufacturing
• Building construction systems
• Business methods, such as in the financial, medical, real estate, and entertainment fields
• Cable television systems
• Calling and information retrieval systems
• Car haulers
• Card technology (debit, credit, gift cards)
• Cellular phones
• Coin handling equipment
• Collators
• Communications, control, and handshaking protocols, modems, and phase locking
• Communications satellites
• Computer hardware and software
• Contact lenses
• Copiers
• Dental instruments
• Diesel engines
• Digital cameras and camcorders
• Digital printing equipment
• Electric motors and controls
• Elevators
• Filtration apparatus
• Finite element analysis software systems
• Fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters
• Flash or non-volatile memory
• Footwear
• Fuel-tank inerting systems
• Golf equipment
• Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems
• High-vacuum film coating machines
• Hydraulics
• Image processing
• Industrial hygiene
• Information systems
• Internet infrastructure
• Laboratory equipment and systems
• Land-based telephone and switching systems
• Lasers
• Linear and digital integrated circuits
• Medical devices, such as chest tubes, IV sets, oximeters
• Medical prostheses, such as intraocular lenses, electrically powered implants, and urological prostheses
• Memory circuit architecture
• Memory controllers
• Modems
• Networking equipment
• Network testing applications
• Night vision systems
• Optical systems
• Paper and pulp manufacture and processing
• Photographic lenses
• Power-generation systems, including renewable energy, such as hydropower, wind energy, and solar power
• Pneumatic systems
• Propane torches
• Radar systems
• Recreational equipment
• Regulators
• RFID
• Robotic and electronic welding systems
• Satellite-based aviation systems
• Satellite launch facilities
• Sensors
• Separation apparatus
• Ship-building
• Skyscraper construction
• Spectroscopy
• Surgical devices, such as surgical staples and staplers
• Telecommunications
• Tools
• Utilities
• UV printers
• Valves
• Vending machines
• Videoconferencing systems
• Wall covering systems
• Wireless telephone systems
• Wound-care devices

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