Grant Buchanan, Associate

Houston, TX

O: (832) 850-2875 D: (713) 623-4844

Experienced IP attorney

Grant Buchanan is an associate in the firm’s Houston office. He focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with experience handling invalidity and non-infringement options, patent litigation, trademark litigation, patent drafting, patent prosecution, due diligence, portfolio management, and counseling. Grant works with a variety of companies including those in the biotechnology, chemical, electric battery, food science, healthcare, manufacturing, medical device, packaging, polymers, and semiconductor spaces. Grant has participated in a variety of pro bono matters, including section 1983 cases.

Professional background

Prior to joining Patterson + Sheridan in 2017, Grant worked as an associate for a large U.S.-based Am Law 50 firm, representing large institutional clients in complex litigation matters. Before entering private practice, he served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Gray H. Miller of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Professional background in the field of chemistry

Prior to law school, Grant received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he authored and co-authored eight publications concerning the total synthesis of natural products and [3+3] hetero-annulation reaction methodology, gave multiple academic and conference speeches about his research, and taught medicinal chemistry. Grant received several fellowships for his proposal to develop novel synthetic strategies and employ them in the synthesis of molecularly complex and biologically active alkaloids.

As an undergraduate, Grant received a research fellowship to attend the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he researched ring-closing metathesis of macrolactone scaffolds. While attending Trinity University, Grant investigated the stability of aromatic and antiaromatic intermediates and tutored for the chemistry department.

Establishing the Concept of Aza-[3+3]
Annulations Using Enones as a Key Expansion of This Unified Strategy in
Alkaloid Synthesis, 9 Beilstein J. Organic Chemistry 1170 (2013)

Asymmetric Aza-[3+3] Annulation in the
Synthesis of Indolizidines: An Unexpected Reversal of Regiochemistry, 3 Organic Letters
4402
(2011)

Total Synthesis of (±)-Phomactin A. Lessons
Learned in Respecting a Challenging Structural Topology, 76 J. Organic
Chemistry 7027
(2011)

Constructing the Architecturally Distinctive
ABD-Tricycle of Phomactin A through an Intramolecular Oxa-[3+3] Annulation
Strategy, 67 Tetrahedron
10105
(2011)

Aza-[3+3] Annulations: A New Unified Strategy in Alkaloid Synthesis, 7
Current Organic Chemistry
363
(2010)

Total Synthesis
of Phomactin A, 11 Organic Letters 1591 (2009)

An Enantioselective
Synthesis of the ABD Tricycle for (-)-Phomactin A Featuring Rawal’s Asymmetric
Diels-Alder Cycloaddition, 350 Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2885
(2008)

Aza- and Carbo-[3+3] Annulations of Exo-Cyclic Vinylogous Amides and Urethanes. Synthesis of
Tetrahydroindolizidines and an Unexpected Formation of Hexahydroquinolines, 64 Tetrahedron 883 (2008).

Education

  • J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2015 (Houston Journal of International Law, Moot Court)
  • Ph.D., Organic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2011
  • B.S., cum laude, Chemistry with a minor in Economics, Trinity University, 2005

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois State Bar
  • Texas State Bar
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Experienced IP attorney

Grant Buchanan is an associate in the firm’s Houston office. He focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with experience handling invalidity and non-infringement options, patent litigation, trademark litigation, patent drafting, patent prosecution, due diligence, portfolio management, and counseling. Grant works with a variety of companies including those in the biotechnology, chemical, electric battery, food science, healthcare, manufacturing, medical device, packaging, polymers, and semiconductor spaces. Grant has participated in a variety of pro bono matters, including section 1983 cases.

Professional background

Prior to joining Patterson + Sheridan in 2017, Grant worked as an associate for a large U.S.-based Am Law 50 firm, representing large institutional clients in complex litigation matters. Before entering private practice, he served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Gray H. Miller of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Professional background in the field of chemistry

Prior to law school, Grant received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he authored and co-authored eight publications concerning the total synthesis of natural products and [3+3] hetero-annulation reaction methodology, gave multiple academic and conference speeches about his research, and taught medicinal chemistry. Grant received several fellowships for his proposal to develop novel synthetic strategies and employ them in the synthesis of molecularly complex and biologically active alkaloids.

As an undergraduate, Grant received a research fellowship to attend the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he researched ring-closing metathesis of macrolactone scaffolds. While attending Trinity University, Grant investigated the stability of aromatic and antiaromatic intermediates and tutored for the chemistry department.

Establishing the Concept of Aza-[3+3]
Annulations Using Enones as a Key Expansion of This Unified Strategy in
Alkaloid Synthesis, 9 Beilstein J. Organic Chemistry 1170 (2013)

Asymmetric Aza-[3+3] Annulation in the
Synthesis of Indolizidines: An Unexpected Reversal of Regiochemistry, 3 Organic Letters
4402
(2011)

Total Synthesis of (±)-Phomactin A. Lessons
Learned in Respecting a Challenging Structural Topology, 76 J. Organic
Chemistry 7027
(2011)

Constructing the Architecturally Distinctive
ABD-Tricycle of Phomactin A through an Intramolecular Oxa-[3+3] Annulation
Strategy, 67 Tetrahedron
10105
(2011)

Aza-[3+3] Annulations: A New Unified Strategy in Alkaloid Synthesis, 7
Current Organic Chemistry
363
(2010)

Total Synthesis
of Phomactin A, 11 Organic Letters 1591 (2009)

An Enantioselective
Synthesis of the ABD Tricycle for (-)-Phomactin A Featuring Rawal’s Asymmetric
Diels-Alder Cycloaddition, 350 Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2885
(2008)

Aza- and Carbo-[3+3] Annulations of Exo-Cyclic Vinylogous Amides and Urethanes. Synthesis of
Tetrahydroindolizidines and an Unexpected Formation of Hexahydroquinolines, 64 Tetrahedron 883 (2008).




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