Nadzeya Kukhta

Nadzeya Kukhta is a registered Patent Agent in Dentons' Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Her primary practice area is Patent Law, specialising in patent preparation, prosecution, prior art searches, freedom-to-operate studies and patent strategy for innovations in chemistry, materials science, semiconductors, organic electronics, bioelectronics and advanced materials.

She holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from Kaunas University of Technology and has postdoctoral research experience from the University of Washington and Durham University (UK). Before joining Dentons, she practised at Fenwick and Finnegan, where she applied her scientific background to patent prosecution and IP matters involving life sciences, chemistry-related technologies, materials science, semiconductor-related innovations, pharmaceutical technologies, bioelectronics, electrical engineering and AI.

She helps inventors, researchers, business teams and legal stakeholders translate complex science into protectable inventions and commercially focused IP strategies. She is also a scientist with more than 10 years of academic experience in organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, materials science and photophysics, with research including the design and study of multifunctional compounds and multidisciplinary work in organic electronics and bioelectronics.

She has authored approximately 30 scientific papers and reviews and delivered more than 20 conference presentations. She holds an M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from Belarusian State University (2011) and a PhD in Materials Engineering from Kaunas University of Technology (2016).