Our Attorneys have experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Our Attorneys have successfully prosecuted patents in the chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and business methods areas for clients ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to start-up firms and individual inventors.

We enjoy preparing patent applications which will help our clients accomplish their business goals. We take pride in understanding our client’s industries and work with them towards obtaining licensable and enforceable patents. We also assist our clients in the strategic aspects of patent prosecution, helping them to develop appropriate and cost-effective patent portfolios.

We pride ourselves on our thorough knowledge of the patent examination process, and we maintain a variety of active patent portfolios for clients desiring varying levels of service. Additionally, our attorneys have experience in prosecuting and supervising foreign counsels during the prosecution of patents outside the United States.

Biotechnology Patents

The biotechnology patent process can be complex, but our attorneys have the in-depth legal experience, industry knowledge, and scientific education to help you achieve your business goals.

Our Attorneys have formal scientific training and/or have held research positions in a wide variety of biotechnology fields including immunology, molecular biology, cell biology, gene therapy, genomics, proteomics, microbiology, virology, biochemistry and plant sciences. Our training enables us to quickly grasp and appreciate our client’s innovations and allows us to focus on their legal needs.

We work with inventors and firms in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences industries and our patent prosecution work encompasses all life sciences-related disciplines, including genetic engineering, immunology, microbiology, developmental biology, neurology, virology, cell and transplantation biology, gene therapy, vaccine development, gene regulation, transgenic animals and plants, genomics-based analysis and diagnosis, bioinformatics, small-molecule design, peptide analog design and synthesis, drug discovery, proteomics, and gene- and cell-based therapies.

We appreciate the business challenges that face, particularly, start-up life science and biotechnology firms and we enjoy assisting them to develop unique legal and business strategies structured around their intellectual properties

Pharmaceutical Patents

Our Attorneys appreciate that robust IP protection holds the key to the continued growth and viability of our pharmaceutical industry clients. These clients repeatedly entrust us with their highly valued intellectual property assets. Our Attorneys have prosecuted and rendered opinions in virtually every field of pharmaceutical sciences, including vaccines, antimicrobials, AIDS therapies, anticonvulsants, oncologics , antipyretics, immunosuppressives, anti-inflammatories, and anti-virals.

For start-up companies, our attorneys can help set up the initial IP strategy. For established firms, we can draft and prosecute your valued IP assets. We determine priority in complex interferences, assess the patent portfolios of our clients, and assert and defend patents in the District Courts and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

World-wide, the pharmaceutical industry is regulated under complex laws that address both medical and economic issues. Our attorneys have the legal, scientific, and commercial business expertise required to identify and prosecute patentable inventions throughout the development process.

Chemical Patents

Our IP patent attorneys have the specialized scientific education, industry knowledge, and legal experience to effectively handle chemical intellectual property matters. We provide patent services for all chemistry-related disciplines including organic chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, polymer science, and materials sciences.

Our chemistry professionals have experience working with clients in a wide variety of industries, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, personal products, household products, plastics and polymers, agrochemicals, medical device, metallurgy, energy products, analytical instrumentation, pulp and paper science, adhesives, fuel cells, and battery industries.

We take pride in drafting and providing counseling on strategies that will assist in bringing your chemical product to market, while avoiding potential conflicts with competitors.

Combinatorial Chemistry

Our combinatorial chemistry clients try to make arrays or libraries of distinct compounds starting from a small number of starting materials and screen those compounds against biological, agricultural, or other targets to identify candidate compounds that have desired properties.

Our Attorneys have the expertise in chemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, and chemical engineering – those areas that are needed to reap the promise of combinatorial chemistry. We can easily get up to speed to help clients protect techniques they have developed in the areas of liquid- and solid-phase synthesis, library design, genetic screening, and bioinformatics.

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology, the development and use of nanometer-sized structures, has the potential to transform various traditional technical arts, including materials, computers, chemicals, biotechnology, medicine, semiconductors, optics and mechanical devices.

Our Attorneys hold advanced degrees in every field of science and technology pertaining to nanotechnology. Our understanding of the complexities of patent law and our broad range of expertise makes us well-suited to serve the legal needs of clients working in this ground breaking technology. Our Attorneys have expertise in a variety of technical areas that are important to nanotechnology research, including nanoparticles, solid state physics, MEMS technology, atomic force microscopy, carbon nanotubes, optics, biotechnology, electronics, materials, chemistry, and sensors.

Mechanical, Biomechanical, and Medical Device Patents

Our Attorneys have the experience and the technical expertise to effectively draft, prepare and prosecute mechanical, biomechanical and medical device patents. Our attorneys have patent prosecution experience with a broad range of medical devices including devices for magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and x-ray imaging, catherters, prosthetic organs and joints and orthopedic devices, surgical instruments and inserts, and drug delivery devices.

Business Methods

An increasing number of patents have been issued to software and Internet companies that have devised novel ways of doing business. These patents, which usually combine software with business methodology, are commonly referred to as business method patents and have become important assets for both independent inventors and major corporations.

We handle patent protection on a new Internet business model. We also handle domain name dispute, counsel clients on trademark and copyright issues surrounding their websites, and conduct due diligence investigation of the intellectual property assets of an e-technology company.