Your work is where the future starts, at the cutting edge of research and development.
We are here to make sure you move beyond that starting point, tailoring our advice to fit your organization's practical and scientific needs.
If you are a university, we can deal with the legal complexities and help you further your non-profit mission and boost your academic reputation. If you are a business, we can help you to navigate funding options. If you are a venture capitalist or private equity firm, we can help you assess and protect your investment.
Whatever your set up, we can be trusted advisors in the field of IP, protecting patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, helping you to build a portfolio and, when needed, enforce your rights through litigation. When you are conducting clinical trials, we can ensure your work meets regulatory and compliance requirements around the world. We can also help you commercialize if required, via joint ventures and M&A deals, as well as dealing with more operational requirements such as transactional work, licensing, safety, labor and employment agreements, and data privacy.
We have worked with many of the world's best universities, government agencies and business clients ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Our clients come from the fields of human healthcare and veterinary medicine, agriculture, biotechnology and industry. When you speak to us, you will be talking to a team who are not just experienced lawyers, but who have the scientific background to understand your research and to advance your ideas. Our team is ready to help and includes biomedical, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and nuclear engineers as well as chemists, biotechnologists, and Ph.D.s in genetics and other life science niches.
Our lawyers have experience in everything relating to reach and development in life sciences and healthcare. Our recent R&D experience includes:
- advising a Swiss company that specializes in the development, manufacture and commercialization of combination products and delivery systems in the area of aesthetics) on patent and trade secrets litigation in global courts, including settlement by way of a cross-license on advantageous terms.
- successfully defending a research institute against patent infringement claims
- helping a leading public research university patent diuretic modulators
- providing IP counsel, including patent prosecution and portfolio management, on behalf of some of the world’s top universities.
- assisting a research and development company in developing a transdermal delivery patent portfolio
- representing a public research university in patenting nanoparticle-stabilized liposomes
- developing patent portfolios for molecular beacon and nanocluster molecular labeling technologies for a research university
- represented a US public research university in developing and licensing a patent portfolio covering extracellular matrix therapeutic applications