Umair A. Qadeer
Registered Patent Attorney
umair@qadeerip.com | 312.248.3020
Umair is a highly experienced intellectual property attorney, with expertise spanning patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. He is a registered patent attorney, with experience in patent preparation and prosecution, patent strategy, patent opinions, patent licensing and contracts, and patent litigation. Umair has worked on patent matters in a variety of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals and chemical compositions, materials, biotechnology, medical devices, analytical instrumentation, clean technologies, food products, consumer products, and mechanical devices. He has also obtained trademark registrations in many different industries, and has handled trademark administrative proceedings and litigation. Umair works with foreign patent and trademark counsel on matters in other jurisdictions.
Before law school Umair was a graduate student in chemistry, where he studied the reaction of polar vinyl monomers with single-site olefin polymerization catalysts, and also worked on catalyst research in the petroleum refining industry.
Areas of Expertise
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Intellectual Property Licensing, Transactions & Agreements
Prior Associations
Scale
Hojka Qadeer
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Education
University of Chicago Law School, J.D. 2007
University of Chicago, M.S. in Chemistry 2002
Harvard University, A.B. in Chemistry 1998
Bar Admissions
California
Illinois
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office