Chemistry & Materials
Our team of patent attorneys has a solid knowledge and experience in technical areas like Chemistry, Materials and Pharmaceuticals. Having PhDs or experience acquired in industry or postdoctoral positions, they have the tools to understand and solve complex problems in this area of science.
Chemistry
Our team of patent attorneys has a deep understanding of organic, organometallic and polymer chemistry, electrochemistry, chemical engineering and petrochemicals. They combine this understanding with their IP knowledge and experience to provide quality and effective service to a wide range of industries.
Our clients come from diverse sectors such as petroleum refining, plastics, photolithography, pulp and paper, explosives, natural products, chemical synthesis & processes, etc.
We have successfully advised our clients in relation to the recycling of polyurethanes, functionalised rubbers, gasoline additives, printing plates and pigments based on metallic complexes.
Materials
Following an impressive development in recent years, Material science has become the basis of important innovations: nanomaterials, LEDs, security and RFID markers, biomaterials, ceramics, graphene, etc.
Our specialised patent attorneys have successfully advised clients in projects relating to graphene materials, digital enamel inks, composite materials for aircrafts, cellulose nanofibers, synthesis of nanowires, Atomic Quantum Clusters (AQCs) or RAMAN security markers.
Our specialists in this category
Juan Arias
Managing partnerJuan founded ABG in 2003. He has more than 25 years of patent experience.
Francisco Bernardo
Managing PartnerFrancisco founded ABG in 2003 and is Managing Partner. He is a qualified European Patent Attorney (EQE, 2004).
Enric Carbonell
PartnerEnric joined ABG in 2007 and is partner in charge of the Barcelona office and has twenty-five years of patent experience.
Almudena Fernández
PartnerAlmudena joined ABG in 2004 and is a partner in the chemistry department
Tomás Llamas
AssociateTomás joined ABG in 2007 and is an associate in the chemistry department.
Marta Rodríguez
AssociateMarta joined ABG in 2008 and is an associate in the chemistry department.
Sofia Pettersson
AssociateSofia joined ABG in 2010 and is an associate in the chemistry department.
Iain A. McGeoch
AssociateIain joined ABG in 2014 and is associate and responsible for the running of ABG’s Basque Country office in Bilbao.
André Santos
Patent AdviserAndré joined ABG in 2016 and is a patent adviser in the chemistry department.
Virginia Gómez
Patent AdviserVirginia joined ABG in 2017 as a patent adviser in the chemistry department.
Alexandre Pinto
Patent AdviserAlexandre joined ABG in October 2018 as a patent adviser in the chemistry department in our Barcelona office.
