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Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals Team
The area of industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry covers a broad spectrum of technologies and products, and accordingly, our attorneys and agents have various backgrounds and extensive experience in different chemical disciplines. Our clients' technologies include polymer chemistry; wood treatment, pulp and paper industry; fiber technologies; solid oxide fuel cells; oil refinery, water and gas treatment processes; nanotechnologies; ore treatment; catalyst technologies; deicing compositions; preservatives, detergents, insecticides and fabric manufacture. Innovations in these fields are of great social importance as they promote development of new medicines and better materials for industrial use.
We have a wide range of experience assisting both new market entrants in developing a strategy for protecting their company's intellectual property early in the planning stages of doing business, before the product enters the stream of commerce in Russia, as well as the already established companies in expanding their business activities and strengthening their position in the Russian market. We have a clear understanding of the differing intellectual property issues that arise as a company develops.
Attorneys and agents of the team possess scientific backgrounds (including PhD level, see links to personal profiles given below for more details), which together cover a vast area of chemistry, and have gained significant experience working in the field. This allows us to be confident in drafting patent applications with chemical subject matter and in handling inventions right across the Chemical field, including organic, inorganic and physical chemistry.
In particular, we have experience of drafting and prosecuting patent applications relating to pharmaceuticals, including antiviral and immunomodulating compounds, new crystalline forms, adsorbent and polymer technology, catalysts, bioecology, cosmetic and medical compositions, surgery and drug delivery, nanotechnology, medical instruments and semiconductors.
Our team of experienced patent searchers in the area of pharmaceuticals provides comprehensive studies for those of our clients who wishes to make sure, before entering the Russian market, that they infringe nobody's intellectual property rights. This option is particularly important for multinational generic companies manufacturing multiple drugs so essencial for social classes of low income, especially in some of the CIS countries. Our chemical specialist working in close co-operation with the searchers provide comparative analysis, non-infringement opinions and freedom to operate reports.
A particular strength of our Chemistry team is our ability to work on cross-disciplinary inventions, particularly in collaboration with our colleagues in the Life Sciences, Engineering and IT, Electronics and Physics groups.
Drafting patent applications in the field of chemistry requires a special combination of legal and technical skills which we believe our attorneys can confidently demonstrate as a result of our experience gained in working with our broad portfolio of clients.
For further information please contact Maria Nilova, Vadim Chagin and Ksenya Markova. Please also have a look at our life Sciences, Mechanical Engineering and Electronics and Telecommunication groups for further details of our services in these related fields.
Our Team
Maria NILOVA
Vadim CHAGIN
Ksenya Nasonova
Olga GALYGINA
Alexander ZHERNAKOV
Victor Lisovenko
Ekaterina Petrova
Ksenia Bolotova
Elena TSVETKOVA