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Dunlap Codding Adds Three New Associates
Posted Nov 8, 2011 at 12:14 pm See More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicholas D. Rouse, Managing Shareholder 405-607-8600 nrouse@dunlapcodding.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA – November 1, 2011 – Dunlap Codding is pleased to announce the addition of three new associate attorneys in 2011, Michelle L. Briggs, Ann M. Robl and Timothy J. Singleton.

Michelle Briggs’ practice focuses on trademarks, copyrights, entertainment and Internet law as well as licensing, transactional, and litigation matters.  She graduated from the Oklahoma City University School of Law where she ranked in the top 20% of her class.   During law school, Michelle served as the Vice President of the Intellectual Property Student Association and was a member of Phi Delta Phi, a member and treasurer of OCU merit scholars, and a student member of the Holloway Inn of Court.  She was on the Dean’s List from 2009 to 2011, and on the Faculty Honor Roll in 2011.
Michelle received her B.A. in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs in 2005 from Southern Methodist University.

Ann Robl concentrates her intellectual property practice in the areas of patents, patentability analysis, prior art search, licensing and prosecution.  She graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in May 2011, where she was inducted into the national Order of Barristers as one of ten graduating students recognized for outstanding performance in oral advocacy and support of oral advocacy programs.  Ann was a member of the Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology editorial staff and was named Best Note Editor of the publication in 2011.  She was on the Dean’s Honor Roll from 2008 to 2011, and received an Academic Achievement Award for Legal Research & Writing in 2009.  In 2009, she was a member of the Calvert Moot Court Elite Eight Teams and a Top Ten Individual Speaker.  In law school, Ann also competed in moot court and client counseling competitions, and was twice named a competition Top Ten Best Speaker.  From 2008 to 2011, she was the recipient of the William T. Comfort Scholarship.  Ann received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University, where she graduated, cum laude, in 1995.
Tim Singleton practices in the areas of intellectual property, licensing and patent law.  He is involved in counseling and transactional work involving all aspects of intellectual property. He received his J.D. for the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2010, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi and was inducted into the national Order of Barristers.  He received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma in 2004.  While a student at the University of Tulsa College of Law, Tim was inducted into Phi Delta Phi.  During law school, he served as the editor of the Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law and of the Tulsa Law Review. He received the CALI Award for Excellence:  Electronic Discovery, May 2010, the CALI Award for Excellence:  Foreign Relations, May 2009, and was awarded 1st place in the Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition, in 2006, 2007, and 2009.

Tim served as an intern with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma and a judicial intern for Justice Marian Opala, Oklahoma Supreme Court.  He also received an M.S. in Computer Science in 2010 from the University of Tulsa, and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma in 2004.

Dunlap Codding P.C. is an Oklahoma City-based law firm serving regional, national and international clients.  Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique.  Dunlap Codding represents a substantial number of sophisticated client companies, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

Attorney Laura Robinson Rejoins Dunlap Codding
Posted Nov 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm See More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicholas D. Rouse, Managing Shareholder 405-607-8600 nrouse@dunlapcodding.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA – September 29, 2011 – Dunlap Codding is pleased to announce that Laura Robinson has rejoined the firm as an associate representing clients in intellectual property issues including patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark matters.  Her practice also includes the review and evaluation of business practices to ensure compliance with FDA regulations and procedures.  Prior to rejoining Dunlap Codding, Robinson served as in house patent counsel for Molecular Imprints, a nanotechnology company, from September 2008 until January 2011, where she was responsible for the company’s entire patent portfolio, drafting patents and overseeing the work of outside counsel.  Nick Rouse, the firm’s Managing Shareholder, said, “Laura was a standout attorney when she practiced at the firm previously, and her experiences as an in-house patent counsel will only serve to make her more valuable to our clients.  We’re delighted to have her rejoin us.” Robinson said, “I’m thrilled to be back at Dunlap Codding.  It’s a great place to work with really supportive, smart people.  I loved working at Molecular Imprints and the luxury of focusing on one patent portfolio; the discipline of working within a set budget was also a great experience.”

Robinson received her J.D. from Texas Tech University in 2005.  She received her M.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2002 and her B.S. in Biomedical Science from that same university in 1999.  While in law school, Laura earned academic achievement awards in Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Anatomy of a Trial and Law Practice Technology. She also served as a legal intern in the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats Program and as a law clerk for the Texas Tech Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property.

Dunlap Codding represents a number of nanotechnology companies, in addition to representing clients in the following exemplar areas:  biotechnology and life sciences, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, energy services, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software, and optics.  The firm’s clients comprise large research institutions, multinational manufacturers, individual inventors and companies and institutions of all sizes in between.

Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

Pictometry Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed by GeoSpan
Posted Aug 6, 2011 at 6:33 am See More

SOURCE Pictometry International Corp.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Pictometry International Corp., the leading provider of aerial oblique imagery and measuring software, announced today that the United States District Court of Minnesota has summarily declared that Pictometry’s oblique aerial image capture system does not infringe on GeoSpan’s patent.

“For Pictometry customers and the industry at large, this ruling confirms Pictometry’s integrity and innovation — the very attributes that enabled us to establish the aerial oblique industry more than a decade ago and the same attributes which have enabled us to maintain our leadership role in the geospatial industry ever since,” said Rick Hurwitz, Pictometry’s Chief Executive Officer.

According to Court documents, the Court ruled in favor of Pictometry in the patent dispute and entered a Declaratory Judgment of non-infringement on GeoSpan’s U.S. Patent no. 5,633,946, effectively ending the case. Due to the baseless nature of GeoSpan’s infringement claims, Pictometry may ask the Minnesota Court to declare the case “exceptional” and require GeoSpan to reimburse Pictometry for attorney’s fees and costs incurred in defending against such claims.

In a related matter, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Pictometry’s request to re-examine the GeoSpan patent to consider written materials which were not before the Patent and Trademark Office examiner when the initial examination of the patent was made. According to the Patent Office’s initial findings, there are substantial new questions of patentability that may evidence inequitable conduct on the part of GeoSpan for withholding some of these materials from the Patent Office.

“Pictometry will continue to protect its intellectual property on behalf of its customers as we create new, innovative technologies and partner with them to better serve their needs,” said Stephen Schultz, Pictometry’s Chief Technical Officer.

About Pictometry
Pictometry International Corp. is a leading provider of geo-referenced, aerial image libraries and related software. Pictometry has captured over 140 million digital aerial images which represent more than 80 percent of the United States population and all major U.S. markets. Using its proprietary imaging process, Pictometry captures geo-referenced, high-resolution orthogonal (straight down view) and oblique (captured at an angle) imagery within which structures and land features can be measured. Pictometry customizes and markets these technologies for government and commercial applications. Pictometry’s standard oblique imagery includes second order visualization tools that do not produce authoritative or definitive information (surveying). For more information, visit www.pictometry.com.

Kathryn Hester Featured in Article on Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Posted Aug 1, 2011 at 18:00 pm See More

Kathryn Hester, Ph.D., a patent agent at Dunlap Codding is featured in the April 3, 2011, issue of The Oklahoman in an article by Paula Burkes, “Entrepreneurial Opportunities Lure Aspiring Doctors, Chemists from Research to Startups.”

Kathryn used her doctorate in biochemistry and microbiology to become a patent agent, after passing the patent bar exam. She said, “to correctly write patent applications, you need to understand the invention to be able to critique and analyze it.” Hester meets with inventors, writes applications and reviews invention disclosures. As she told The Oklahoman, the process of obtaining a patent application involves the preparation and submission of a patent application to the Patent Office, followed by “prosecution” of the application. Prosecution essentially involves arguing back and forth with the Patent Office on why the applicant believes the invention is novel and non-obvious (i.e., involves an inventive step) over what’s previously been published, patented or otherwise disclosed. Typically the biggest hurdle in obtaining a patent is arguing the non-obviousness of the inventive concept, as it can be very subjective.

The article profiles other inventors and scientists, including Dunlap Codding clients, who have started companies or otherwise used their degrees outside the realm of research and academia.

Chambers USA Ranks Dunlap Codding in Top Band for IP Firms in Oklahoma
Posted Jun 1, 2011 at 18:00 pm See More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicholas D. Rouse, Managing Shareholder 405-607-8600 nrouse@dunlapcodding.com

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA – June 10, 2011 – Dunlap Codding is pleased to be ranked in Band 1 (the top band) for intellectual property by Chambers USA:  America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.  The publication is widely regarded as the most reliable and intensively researched of all lawyer rating directories.  Chambers USA began ranking Oklahoma Intellectual Property firms in 2010, and Dunlap Codding was a top-ranked firm in the inaugural coverage of the state’s intellectual property practitioners, and is ranked in Band 1 for 2011.  Additionally, each of the firm’s shareholders is listed among the selected top intellectual property lawyers in the state.  Sources quoted in the publication said about the firm, “The team at Dunlap is great to work with.  The attorneys are extremely thorough, and always come through with the results we need.”  Chambers describes the firm as a “well-established IP boutique [which] carries out work across the country….The firm regularly represents national and international clients such as Siemens, DuPont and Pictometry in a range of matters from patent development and portfolio management to patent prosecution and IP litigation.”

Dunlap Codding P.C. is an Oklahoma City-based law firm serving regional, national and international clients.  Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique.  Dunlap Codding represents a substantial number of sophisticated client companies, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

Oklahoma Bioscience Leaders Point the Way for the Next Generation
Posted Mar 1, 2011 at 18:00 pm See More

Dunlap Codding Patent Agent Dr. Kathryn Hester was quoted in April Wilkerson’s article in The Journal Record on March 31.  According to the article,” the beauty of the bioscience industry is that a person can move from pipettes to patents if stagnation sets in.”

Dr. Hester is quoted on the path she took to protect innovations.  ”My path has been pretty straightforward with a crook in it.  I went straight from the Ph.D. to work for the law firm.  I knew when I was doing my graduate work that I didn’t want to stay in a lab for the rest of my life,  but I wasn’t sure exactly where I wanted to go.  Patent law is an interesting area of the law in that it does not require a law degree to practice it.  It actually requires a technical degree because you need to be able to understand what the inventions are and to be able to critically analyze them and to write patents correctly.”
The article continues, profiling other University of Oklahoma graduates and scientists.

Oklahoma Super Lawyers Selects Dunlap Codding Attorneys for Inclusion
Posted Oct 1, 2010 at 18:00 pm See More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicholas D. Rouse, Managing Shareholder 405-607-8600 nrouse@dunlapcodding.com OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA – October 26, 2010

Oklahoma Super Lawyers Recognizes Dunlap Codding Attorneys as Rising Stars for 2010

Dunlap Codding, P.C. is pleased to announce that the following lawyers were selected by attorney peers for inclusion in Oklahoma Super Lawyers—Rising Stars Edition (2010):  Emily E. Campbell, D. Ward Hobson, Barbara Krebs Yuill. 

Campbell, Hobson, and Yuill join fellow Dunlap Codding attorneys selected for inclusion in Oklahoma Super Lawyers—Rising Star Edition (2008):  Marc A. Brockhaus and Douglas J. Sorocco.

Dunlap Codding’s R. Trent Pipes was selected by attorney peers for inclusion in Oklahoma Super Lawyers (2008).

Dunlap Codding P.C. is an Oklahoma City-based law firm serving regional, national and international clients.  Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique.  Dunlap Codding represents a substantial number of sophisticated client companies, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

Scholarship Allows Oriana Hawkins to Attend BIO
Posted Jun 1, 2010 at 18:00 pm See More

Dunlap Codding Sponsors Graduate Student at BIO—
Oriana Hawkins Receives Oklahoma BioScience Travel Award

Dunlap Codding is a pleased to be once again a contributor to the Oklahoma BioScience Travel Award presented at the Graduate Research Education and Technology Symposium.  The 2010 award has been given to Ph.D. candidate Oriana Hawkins.  She is a student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Oklahoma, mentored by Dr. William Hildebrand.

Dr. Hildebrand’s lab works to understand how the body’s alarm system, HLA, alerts the immune system to diseases such as cancer, HIV, and West Nile Virus.   Hawkins has focused her energies on identifying new targets for breast cancer. The long term goal of her project is to develop T cell eliciting vaccines and antibody therapeutics to treat breast cancer. She is co-inventor on three patent applications related to her research; the applications were prepared and filed by Dunlap Codding.

Ms. Hawkins was selected to receive the Oklahoma Bioscience Travel Award for her presentation, “Targeting of Breast Tumors by an HLA A*0201/MIF Specific Antibody.”  The award is part of the Graduate Research Education and Technology Symposium held annually at OUHSC. The award provided funds for travel expenses and registration fees to attend the BIO International Conference held in Chicago in 2010. BIO is the world’s largest annual event for the biotechnology industry.

While at BIO, Ms. Hawkins learned the business of bringing new therapeutic agents from discovery, to clinical trials, through FDA approval and, finally, to market. She made contacts within three large pharmaceutical companies which could significantly propel the development of her discoveries toward new cancer therapies.

“The opportunity for Oriana to network with scientists and business investors as a graduate student was a unique and eye-opening experience,” according to Douglas Sorocco, Dunlap Codding shareholder and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Physiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.  “While many students see the academic importance of their work, few have the resources necessary to network with business leaders and investors at a conference like BIO so early in their careers.  We are delighted to have made that opportunity available to Oriana and to other young scientists.”
Dunlap Codding was also a contributing sponsor of the Oklahoma booth at BIO, and a delegation from the firm, led by Dr. Kathryn Hester, helped to staff the booth in Chicago.  The firm is a charter member of the Oklahoma Bioscience Association and supports the efforts of private and public sectors to grow the bioscience industry in Oklahoma. 

Dunlap Codding P.C. is an Oklahoma City-based law firm serving regional, national and international clients.  Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique.  The firm serves a national and international client base and offer personalized, strategic, pragmatic and responsive legal counsel in a broad array of intellectual property practice areas.  Dunlap Codding represents a substantial number of sophisticated client companies, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

Ignite OKC a Big Success–Dunlap Codding a Sponsor and Co-Host
Posted Jun 1, 2010 at 18:00 pm See More

The second IgniteOKC event held June 10, 2010, at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City, was a big success, with 15 presenters wowing the crowd in 5-minute doses.  Ignite’s premise is 15 slides in 5 minutes—get your point across quickly or else.   Dunlap Codding is one of several sponsors of IgniteOKC and Emily Campbell, an associate at the firm, is a board member and served as a co-host of the event along with Blake Jackson of Chesapeake Energy.  One of Dunlap Codding’s legal interns, Vu Nguyen, delivered a presentation on offline networking—Becoming a Real Life Power User:  How to Network and Connect with People without the Internet.   Nguyen’s, a self-styled computer geek, shared the importance of face-to-face interactions.  

Presenters included:

• Caleb Courtney—Overcoming Little Brother Syndrome:  Why the Upside Down Longhorn Can’t be the Symbol of Our State
• Jill Simpson—What’s Going On in Oklahoma Film
• Michael Champlin—The Power of Visual Communication:  Together, We Can Rid the World of Comic Sans
• Shelley Cadamy—Become a Foster Parent in 10 Easy Steps
• J.C. Mahan—How to Find the Right Hair Stylist
• Mandy Winton—From Soapbox to Ballot Box
• Erin Yarbrough—Go Ahead:  Underestimate Me
• Brad Stone—Put a Little Boom Boom Pow in your 4th of July
• Christy Burcham:  I Made it Myself
• Vu Nguyen—Becoming a Real Life Power User:  How to Network and Connect with People Without the Internet
• Heather Spencer—Remember Where You Come From or How to Trip in Your Pageant Formal and Come Out Smiling
• Dan Lovejoy—Bringing WONDER Back Into Your Life
• David Burkus—Why Your Boss Sucks:  And How to Avoid His Fate
• Amber England—Fat Talk:  How Sweat Became My Catalyst to Find My Passion
• Geoff Eaton—Never Give Up, Never Surrender or My Ongoing Battle Against the Big Black Birds That Sound Like Robots

Sponsors of the event participate because of their shared vision of IgniteOKC’s purpose—to connect people of diverse backgrounds and knowledge through a series of entertaining, rapid-fire presentations.  

Sponsors included:

• Traction Marketing Group
• Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
• Dunlap Codding
• BC Clark Jewelers
• Oklahoma Gazette
• QuiBids
• Moore Norman Technology Center
• Jason’s Deli
• Salsa Fever
• T Photo
• Lyric Theatre at the Plaza
• Iguana
• Café Evoke Catering

The next scheduled event occurs on September 16 in Tulsa (www.ignitetulsa.org).

Chambers USA Ranks Dunlap Codding Among Top IP Firms in Oklahoma
Posted Mar 1, 2010 at 18:00 pm See More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicholas D. Rouse, Managing Shareholder 405-607-8600 nrouse@dunlapcodding.com

Dunlap Codding is pleased to be ranked among the state’s top firms for intellectual property by Chambers USA:  America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.  The publication is widely regarded as the most reliable and intensively researched of all lawyer rating directories.  Chambers USA began ranking Oklahoma Intellectual Property firms in 2010, and Dunlap Codding is a top-ranked firm in the inaugural coverage of the state’s intellectual property practitioners.  Additionally, each of the firm’s shareholders is listed among the selected top intellectual property lawyers in the state.  Sources quoted in the publication said about the firm, “I’m confident they could handle anything, regardless of the subject matter.”  Chambers describes the firm as “well respected in the field due to its attorneys’ broad range of technical expertise. The group undertakes both transactional and contentious IP work and its client base includes major biomedical,pharmaceutical and technology companies.” 

Dunlap Codding P.C. is an Oklahoma City-based law firm serving regional, national and international clients.  Established in 1957 as Oklahoma’s original intellectual property firm, Dunlap Codding remains the state’s largest and most versatile IP boutique.  Dunlap Codding represents a substantial number of sophisticated client companies, and for the past 50 years has obtained more patents, trademarks and copyrights than any other firm in the region.

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DC On Film Row

About DC on Film Row

DC on Film Row is a free event space open to everyone in our community.

We like to say that the space is a “home for creatives and innovators, home builders and the homeless, celebrators and the celebrated” so people understand that we are inclusive and want everyone from throughout our community using our space.

Our goal is to celebrate the incredible diversity of creativity, innovation, and passion within Oklahoma City and to provide a venue—free of charge—to those groups and individuals working to bind us all together and make our home a cooler and better place. No strings attached—no extensive rules to follow. We simply ask that all of our neighbors be honored and that all viewpoints be respected. Our criteria for use is simple: If the event, group, or meeting is something which strengthens our community and brings us all together, the space is available for use.

The space has hosted everything from charitable fundraisers to an underground nightclub party to celebrate Canterbury Choral Society’s 45th anniversary season. We host dinners for the OKC homeless population most Monday evenings where upwards of 250 people are served—we provide the space and soft drinks and a local church provides the food. We’ve hosted university planning retreats and monthly local rock concerts.

Every Wednesday, we open up the courtyard for lunch, invite a local food truck to set up outside our gates, and welcome our downtown neighbors into the space for a bit of socialization.

Our never-ending soda fountain seems to be the biggest hit with some of our neighbors while others spend time playing pool or simply chatting about what is happening on the weekend.

For October we turn the space into a haunted house and invite the neighborhood children to come out and trick-or-treat.

Got an idea for how to use the space? Just ask us – we’re almost certain to say yes!

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Industries Served

Biotechnology

LIFE SCIENCES AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Leveraging Patent Portfolios

Our professionals routinely assist legacy and start-up companies in the acquisition and exploitation of patent portfolios of cutting edge research in the areas of pharmaceuticals, drug formulation, medical technology, drug screening, inflammation inhibitors, regulation of skin pigmentation, testing for environmental pollution, novel treatments of septic shock, and water and food quality testing.  We have an exceptional track record in identifying and protecting inventions involving:

  • Pain regulation
  • Tissue grafting
  • Cloning/gene expression/protein production, isolation and characterization
  • Cell surface expressional
  • Medical/surgical anesthetic devices
  • Biocidal formulations and coatings
  • Toxicity screening
  • Enzymatic activity assays
  • Drug delivery systems
  • Developing Portfolio Strategy

We believe that a pragmatic and strategic approach is necessary to ensure that every portfolio is strong on defense as well as on offense. Whether it is a core, a platform, a fence-picket or a poker-chip technology, Dunlap Codding has the depth of experience and tools necessary to help our clients determine whether it is an asset or simply just an expense.

Chemistry and Chemicals

Chemistry is one of the fundamental foundations of science and technology. Emerging chemical research and experimentation continually produce innovations that shape the field of raw materials and affects the lives of every person on the planet.

Dunlap Codding is fortunate to work with and contribute to the success of many of the leading researchers and entrepreneurs in these areas. From nano-fibers to synthetic and recombinant polymers, Dunlap Codding consistently provides clients with broad-based, cost-effective patent prosecution in the chemical arts.

The depth of our skill and experience is unmatched in our region. We represent several of the largest chemical companies in the world and have shepherded the development of complex patent portfolios and transactional items.

Selected Clients

Invista S.a.r.l. is one of the world’s largest integrated fibers and polymers businesses. The company has a powerful portfolio of some of the most recognized global brands—Lycra®, Stainmaster®, Cordura®—for example. Built on a heritage of innovation, Invista owns more than 700 unique pending or granted U.S. patents, with corresponding patents in nearly all the countries where they have a business presence. We were honored to be one of Invista’s preferred providers of intellectual property services supporting their chemical intermediates and performance fiber initiatives. As part of these efforts, we wrote and prosecuted patents on hundreds of Invista technologies and provided strategic planning and facilitated innovation services to maintain Invista’s technological lead. Notably, Invista relied on our chemical engineering and chemistry expertise for transactional matters requiring complex reviews of freedom to operate, infringement, and invalidity concerns. Recently we provided Invista with the due diligence analysis and opinions required for the placement and construction of a chemical plan requiring a capital investment of more than $1 billion dollars.

Cristal USA Inc. is the United States arm of Cristal Arabia, one of the largest titanium dioxide and performance chemicals producers in the world. As part of our representation of Cristal, we are responsible for the strategic development and management of Cristal’s intellectual property portfolio, including the patent assets of Millennium Inorganic Chemicals—a wholly owned subsidiary of Cristal. Cristal and Millennium’s technologies encompass titanium dioxide, titanium metal, performance chemicals, and DeNOx technologies for removing nitrous oxide from the exhaust of internal combustion engines. We have developed a proprietary process for the identification of patenting opportunities, and use the process in facilitated sessions with technical and business personnel of Millennium. This proprietary process currently tracks more than 100 companies and approximately 1,000 intellectual property documents.

We work with DuPont Performance Elastomers to facilitate the development of new technologies and patenting strategies around DPE’s core elastomer technologies. In addition to such strategic planning, we provide assistance and guidance to DuPont’s in-house legal staff and technical champions.

Technology Focus:
Nanotechnology

We obtained multiple patent families for Dr. Daniel Resasco, a University of Oklahoma professor of chemical engineering. Dr. Resasco’s pioneering work in sulfur tolerant catalysts and nanotechnology resulted in the first method for making carbon nanotubes in commercial quantities.

Surface Technology

We represent international chemical companies such as SDC Technologies Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacturing of polymeric high-performance abrasion resistant coating systems for application to plastic and glass materials. Dunlap Codding helped SDC develop patent portfolios involving several chemical arts such as nanotechnology, material sciences, and state of the art functional surface coating technologies. SDC’s considerable patent portfolio secured its position as a world-wide industry leader providing the chemical marketplace with enhancements required for the materials of tomorrow.

Polymers

We work extensively with clients involved with polymers, polymeric coating compositions and resinous compositions having enhanced color, optical clarity, thermal shock, and impact resistance. Dunlap Codding obtained patent protection for Dr. William Franks’ innovative methods for polymerizing soybean oil. Dr. Franks’ methods led to the development of the first commercially available one hundred percent soybean oil based inks. Dunlap Codding also has expertise in the areas of petrochemicals and water repellent compositions for cellulose containing materials.

Environmental & Green Technologies

We have procured patent rights in various fields of environmental science. Dunlap Codding obtained patents for one of the first water-based inks that is completely free of volatile organic compounds. These inks are water-resistant upon curing and can be printed on polymer films. The inks have won numerous awards and accolades for the impact they have had on environmental quality and safety. Dunlap Codding was also privileged to successfully prosecute the patent that protects the state of the art technology for using sophisticated surfactants to remediate underground pollution. This new technology may also revolutionize the household detergent industry.

The challenges inherent in the specialized field of procuring and protecting chemical intellectual property rights mandate working with legal experts who are well versed in the chemical arts. Our diverse and knowledgeable team of patent attorneys and agents includes former research chemists with extensive chemical background at the doctoral level, a wealth of scientific knowledge gained from industry experience and a former corporate patent general counsel having responsibility for a chemical subsidiary of a major corporation.

Life Sciences

We provide the insight and practical advice required by innovative companies to compete effectively in the marketplace.

Over the past 20 years, life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical ventures set new records for research and capital investment. Just as the life sciences are the building blocks of life itself, new biotechnologies consistently push the intellectual property envelope, requiring highly specialized and focused representation. Dunlap Codding assists many of these emerging growth companies in the development of their business plans, as well as securing strategic life science patent portfolios that are used for offense as well as defense.

Our life sciences and pharmaceutical practice has grown with the evolving needs of our clients. This evolution is evident in the increased number of Ph.D. level scientists moving into the field of patent prosecution. Along with our experienced patent professionals, top caliber technical advisors having varied academic and industry backgrounds complete our Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals Practice Group.

Our proficiencies are a reflection of our extensive legal and scientific backgrounds including Doctorate and other advanced degrees in Chemistry, Botany, Plant Physiology, Population, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. We have also served as adjunct faculty members at several universities including the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Oklahoma City University School of Law.

Our clients benefit from our professionalism, efficiency, and devotion to their individual intellectual property needs. We provide advice and counseling to medical and biotechnology companies including high-tech startups, university laboratories, research institutions, and established biotechnology pioneers.

We provide the personal attention that results in successful patent portfolios. Dunlap Codding’s expertise extends into all areas of biotechnology including glycobiology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, virology, genetics, developmental biology, cell biology, molecular biology, pharmaceutical compositions, molecular diagnostics and techniques, and medical devices and equipment.

A Strategic Partnering Example—Medical Devices/Biotechnology
For a client with a medical device designed to maintain blood flow, we performed a complete state of the art search, analyzing more than 300 references. The current “map” contains more than 1,000 references—patent, technical, and literature.

  • We brainstormed with engineering, legal, business and marketing teams to develop a hierarchy of chokepoints and “white space.”
  • We facilitated innovation strategy meetings and currently maintain an online and proprietary database including visualization tools focused on the information collected and analyzed.
  • We helped the client develop a patent strategy with a specific goal of market entry.  Market entry was achieved within 18 months of project initiation.
Additional highlights of include:
Cutting Edge Biotechnology

We were instrumental in securing intellectual property protection for the first process for producing individual endogenously loaded soluble HLA molecules and on the first recombinant methods for producing hyaluronic acid, chondroitin, and heparin. These patent portfolios have led to the creation of five biotechnology companies in several Oklahoma and Texas metroplexes.

We were instrumental in securing broad platform intellectual property protection for preconditioning and treatment of an intrinsic cardiac nervous system using an implantable electrical stimulus.

Immunology

We secured pioneering intellectual property protection for the first process for producing individual endogenously loaded soluble major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. Our deep experience and skill in this area also extends to methods and processes for producing T Cell Receptor-mimics (TCRm) and the use of such mimics for the creation of peptides and antibodies for use in vaccines as well as assaying the potency of vaccines. We are pleased to have represented more than 12 U.S. and/or international companies in the field of immunology and we prosecute more than 100 patent applications worldwide per year on immunology-linked inventions.

We also have specific knowledge and experience in the areas of immune modulation, including the induction of targeted immune responses and the induction of specific immune tolerance, and antibody removal for transplantation technologies.

Oncology

We treat the field of oncology with a multi-disciplinary approach. Most biochemical inventions either have or hope to have some impact on the field of oncology. As such, our approach is to create a team of professionals with diverse backgrounds who can effectively and proactively protect a client’s oncology innovations. For example, we prosecuted and obtained the patent portfolio covering the fire recombinant methods for producing hyaluronic acid, chondroitin, and heparin. These glycosaminoglycans show excellent promise for oncological applications and we have extended the portfolio to cover their use as therapeutic and diagnostic tools. Additionally, many of our immunology clients perform research in the field of oncologic therapeutics—including the use of antibodies, cytolytic delivery of peptides, or conjugates for the targeting and treatment of specific forms of cancer, as well as other methods of upregulating the immune system to recognize cancerous cells as foreign. We are also experienced in diagnostic oncologic technologies, including the use of biomarkers and other diagnostic platforms for identification, progression, metastasis and prognosis.