Industrial Chemistry

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Our patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys are specialists in protecting and commercialising the value of your chemical innovations and industrial processes.

Chemical products are part of 96% of all manufactured goods. Without chemistry turning matter into useful materials at scale, we wouldn't have the food, medicines, packaging, electronics, fuels, or vehicles we rely on every day.

The ability to produce these materials relies on a complex and delicate blend of grinding, mixing, dissolving, heating, distilling, growing, and filtering, and allowing raw materials to react together to form new compounds. The formulae and processes behind these interactions are a chemical manufacturer's most valuable assets.

But protecting these assets is only part of the challenge. As digital technologies like robotic automation, AI and machine learning become increasingly integrated into chemical manufacturing, you need intellectual property (IP) advice that reflects this shift and combines perspectives from all the scientific areas involved.

M&A activity across the sector is also on the rise, and the strength of your IP portfolio can directly influence how your business is valued.

At Potter Clarkson, we understand the challenges facing the chemical industry. That's why we make sure you have access to the IP advice you need to protect your innovation and support your commercial goals.

Speak to our team about IP for your industrial chemistry innovation.

Key Areas of Expertise

Bulk Chemicals

We've helped clients shape effective patent strategies that support business goals while meeting complex regulatory requirements, including environmental standards that continue to challenge many in this sector. We're also adept at safeguarding IP assets and freedom to operate, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Food Chemistry

With growing demand for natural ingredients and meat alternatives, protecting food chemistry can be challenging, especially when working with naturally occurring materials. Our multidisciplinary team includes patent attorneys, trade mark, and licensing experts who will help secure the protection you need and build a strong brand in a competitive market.

Oil & Gas

Innovation in exploration, production, and refining sits alongside strict safety and environmental requirements, making protection in this sector both complex and commercially important. We help you develop IP strategies that not only protect your innovation, but also reduce risk and support commercial objectives across key markets.‍

Polymers & Materials

Our team combines expertise in chemistry, physics, and engineering to provide comprehensive protection for your innovation. This includes the material itself, how it's made, and where it could be used. Our work spans the chemistry of nanomaterials, metal alloys, battery materials, polymers, composites, and materials used in drug delivery and medical devices.

Process Chemistry

We combine deep technical knowledge from chemistry and engineering to help protect innovative processes. Our attorneys focus on claiming actions and outputs with the greatest chance of detection, making sure your process patents deliver the greatest value.

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Industrial Chemistry IP

1. Expertise in your space

We have extensive experience with clients working across bulk chemicals, polymers and materials, process chemistry, industrial biotech, and food chemistry. Our advice is always tailored to the specific demands of both your business and your sector.

As data and digital technologies play a greater role in chemical manufacturing, the opportunities for innovation continue to grow. We bring together attorneys from our chemistry and IT departments so you benefit from IP advice that reflects all the scientific areas involved.

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2. Strategic perspective

Our deep sector experience means we can factor in all the challenges you face from an IP, commercial, and regulatory perspective. We’ll help you build a strategy that supports your goals, whether that’s protecting complex formulations, managing risk across global supply chains, or preparing for M&A.

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3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

The integration between our attorneys and IP solicitors allows us to offer well-coordinated, multidisciplinary advice from a single source:

Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

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4. Best-value IP products and processes

Built around the specific challenges faced by start-ups, SMEs, and investors, our innovative range of fixed-price IP solutions are designed to help you quickly and easily maximise the commercial value of your IP at each milestone, from initial funding to your chosen exit route.

How We Can Help

Our specialist industrial chemistry team includes patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, and IP solicitors who work together to provide the IP advice you need to meet your strategic goals and maximise the value of your most important assets. Whether that’' the patents protecting the science behind your processes or the brands your customers rely on.

Unlike many firms, we also provide broader legal support. From putting in place the right corporate structure and drafting licensing agreements to guiding you through the international litigation process, we can support you at every stage.

Our team will:

Advise you on the best strategy for all your IP rights.
Register your patents, designs, and trade marks, and help you protect your trade secrets, worldwide.
Provide infringement and validity opinions for your patents, designs, and trade marks.
Carry out patent, design, and trade mark searches and watches.
Defend your IP rights from attacks via a patent or trade mark office, or court proceedings.
Enforce your rights against competitor infringement.
Draft the commercial, IP, and licensing agreements you need to capture, protect, and exploit your IP.
Offer a wider commercial perspective you can use to build and grow your business.

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4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Industrial Chemistry IP

1. Expertise in your space

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2. Strategic perspective

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3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

The integration between our attorneys and IP solicitors allows us to offer well-coordinated, multidisciplinary advice from a single source:

Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

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4. Best-value IP products and processes

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Industrial Chemistry IP

Expertise in your space

Strategic perspective

Seamless multidisciplinary support

The integration between our attorneys and IP solicitors allows us to offer well-coordinated, multidisciplinary advice from a single source:

Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.