Overview
Jeffrey Chelstrom is an intellectual property attorney with more than 15 years of experience assisting clients in patent preparation and prosecution, managing worldwide patent portfolios, and counseling clients on patentability and freedom-to-operate issues. He is well versed in the fields of food science, chemistry, adhesives, polymers, laminates, films, petroleum, and lubricants.
Jeff counsels clients in chemical and mechanical patent applications. He represents clients in appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Services
Practice Areas
Experience
Representative Matters
- Advised an international container seal company in patent and enforcement matters, including obtaining several patents in key product technologies to expand their patent portfolio
- Managed a global patent portfolio relating to novel adhesive formulations and films suitable for packaging applications
- Represented a global irrigation company through a complex patent clearance
- Prosecuted a patent relating to beverage concentrates for a Fortune 500 food company
- Advised a polymer company on freedom to operate involving import and export provisions of the U.S. Patent Code
Prior Experience
- Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP, Partner, 2003-2016
- 3M Company, Engineer, 1992-2000
Credentials
Education
William Mitchell College of Law, J.D.
- magna cum laude
- William Mitchell Law Review, Editor
Iowa State University, B.S.
- Chemical Engineering
- with distinction
Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Recognition
Professional & Community Involvement
William Mitchell College of Law, Intellectual Property Institute
- Board of Advisors
Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago
- U.S. Patents Committee
- Chair, 2014-2016