Intellectual property boutique law firm Patterson + Sheridan LLP has added Grant Buchanan as an associate in the Houston office of the firm. Patterson + Sheridan has five offices across the U.S., in Houston; Dallas; Palo Alto; Greensboro, North Carolina; Shrewsbury, New Jersey; and an international office in Yokohama, Japan.

Buchanan’s practice will focus on patent preparation and prosecution for software, electronics and internet technologies, along with post-grant proceedings. He earned a B.S. in chemistry at Trinity University before obtaining his Ph.D. in organic chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Buchanan earned his J.D. at the University of Houston Law Center in 2015. Prior to joining Patterson + Sheridan, he was an associate attorney with K&L Gates in Chicago.

Patterson + Sheridan LLP is an intellectual property law firm with 67 attorneys located in offices in Houston; Dallas; Palo Alto; Greensboro, North Carolina; Shrewsbury, New Jersey; and Yokohama, Japan. The firm celebrated its 20^th anniversary in 2016.

Patterson + Sheridan offers a broad range of intellectual property services, including preparing and prosecuting patents, representing clients in litigation, dispute resolution, and post-grant proceedings and actions, and providing counseling and strategic insight to clients in a wide variety of industries. The firm has assisted companies in energy, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, clean technologies, communications technologies, complex software, consumer products, electronics and semiconductor technologies, financial technology and business methods, industrial products, internet-related technologies, medical devices and procedures, nanotechnology and optics.