Protecting Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Breakthroughs

Our life sciences team includes experienced and knowledgeable intellectual property attorneys and technical professionals. We support our clients by combining PhD-level life sciences expertise with a deep understanding of the commercial and legal realities that drive business success. As a result, biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovators around the world, from early stage to multinational corporations, count on our team to help them navigate the complex IP landscape.

The team works with in-house counsel to develop and implement U.S. and worldwide patent portfolios directed to all aspects of a product and product development, including approved therapeutics and products in clinical development; methods of use, production and manufacturing methods; reagents for recombinant productions (e.g., host cells, quality control assays, culture media); and formulations.

Our attorneys, patent agents and technology specialists have broad expertise in a wide range of cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, products, and processes. Specific areas include development of patent strategies in connection with biologics and enabling technologies; drug design; discovery technologies; pharmaceuticals; formulations and drug delivery; production methods; diagnostics; and therapeutic product planning and life cycle management.

Exemplary technologies of expertise include, but are not limited to:
  • Biochemistry
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer biology and immunology (including cellular and molecular immuno-oncology)
  • Diagnostics and personalized medicine
  • Gene editing, including CRISPR technologies
  • Genetics and genomics
  • Medical devices
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology
  • Organic chemistry
  • RNA therapeutics
  • Radiolabeled therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical formulations

We Protect Your Innovations and Assets