ANNE L. ST. MARTIN is a chemical patent protection attorney in the firm’s Chemical Patent Prosecution group with a wide breadth of international experience. Ms. St. Martin works to secure patent rights for major international chemical, electronic, plastics and glass corporations in a wide range of technologies. These include biotechnology, coatings, cosmetics, electronic chemicals, fluorine chemicals, glass products (flat glass, automotive glass, display glass and electronic glass), inorganic chemistry, imaging devices, light-emitting materials, liquid crystals, metallurgy, organic chemistry, petrochemistry, petrochemical processing, pharmaceuticals, plastics, polymers, process systems engineering, semiconductors, textiles, and toners. Ms. St. Martin’s exposure to international patent laws and prosecution enables her to better understand and communicate with foreign clients when explaining U.S. patent laws and designing U.S. prosecution strategies.
During both her undergraduate and graduate years of education, Ms. St. Martin studied in numerous countries including Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Namibia, Sri Lanka, China, and Bangladesh. She has a keen interest in international comparative patent law and international intellectual property (IP) regulations and treaties, including Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Paris Convention, and World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlements. These interests led her to spend a summer studying Chinese intellectual property law in Beijing, and a semester working at a European patent firm in Munich, where she gained experience in European Patent Office (EPO) prosecution, EPO opposition proceedings, and German patent litigation.
Ms. St. Martin has studied international commercial arbitration, in particular International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (ICC), International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes Arbitration (ICSID), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Arbitration Rules (UNCITRAL), and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Arbitration. She competed as an oralist for Franklin Pierce Law Center in the 2008 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. The following year, she served as the coach of Franklin Pierce Law Center’s 2009 team, accompanying the team from selection through to Vienna, where one team member was awarded an honorable mention. Ms. St. Martin continues to stay active in the Vis Community and has served as a guest judge for numerous pre-moot arbitration competitions in the U.S. and Germany.
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