TraskBritt Chemical and Chemical Process Practice Group attorneys possess extensive experience in chemical engineering processes and the chemical arts. This experience includes participation in the preparation and prosecution of a wide range of chemical patent applications encompassing the technologies of full-scale chemical process operations, microscale chemical coating processes, chemical and agricultural applications, pharmaceutical applications, aerospace and defense applications and other applications and processes involving inorganic and organic chemicals, and biochemistry.

The Chemical and Chemical Process Practice Group also provides litigation and dispute resolution services and counseling in areas including patent infringement, trade secret theft and protection, and unfair competition issues. In addition, the members of this practice group provide technology licensing expertise, from the review of non-disclosure agreements to the creation of complicated technology licenses and research and development agreements.

TraskBritt was recently named one of the top firms in the nation in terms of quality of patents produced, as rated in "IP Law & Business" magazine, earning the number three position for chemical patents, and the number one position for electrical patents. TraskBritt is one of only four firms in the country to be rated as a leader in more than one technology category in the three years the study has been published.

Representative Patents:

6,010,728   Process for promoting skin healing of freshly dug potatoes
6,006,387   Cold water ozone disinfection
5,955,043   Production of sodium carbonate from solution mine brine
4,904,373   Fossil resin flotation from coal by selective coagulation and depression of coal

Chemical & Chemical Process Practice Group Professionals
• William S. Britt
• Edgar R. Cataxinos
• Jesse M Flores
• J. Jeffrey Gunn
• Katherine A. Hamer
• Daniel J. Morath
• Krista Weber Powell
• Stephen E. Pulley
• Elizabeth H. Schierman
• Alexander T. Stein
• David V. Trask
• Allen C. Turner
• Nathan E. Whitlock