Our Life Sciences attorneys serve the diverse needs of the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical and biomedical device industries. We assist our clients in achieving their business goals and objectives by providing broad, cost-effective intellectual property counseling and portfolio management services. Our attorneys have extensive experience acquiring and enforcing patent rights worldwide, counseling and negotiating licenses and technology transfers, and evaluating all aspects of proprietary technology such as performing due diligence, patent validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate analyses.
Members of our Life Sciences practice have clinical, research and industry experience. A majority of our Life Sciences attorneys hold advanced degrees in biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry and plant sciences. Our attorneys also serve as adjunct professors at the University of Wisconsin Law School and at Loyola University Chicago.
Our Life Sciences attorneys are knowledgeable in a wide variety of technologies including biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and research tools, chemical and materials science, food and beverage science, and biomedical and imaging devices. Specific technologies include inventions in the areas of drug discovery, virology, gene therapy, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, proteomics, genomics, enzymology, glycobiology, immunology, biofuels, transgenic plants and animals, biomolecular assays, biomolecule purification, small molecule chemistry, pharmacology, treatment of diseases, drug delivery and targeted delivery systems, and biomedical devices. Such experience enables our Life Sciences attorneys to combine a full range of legal services with a detailed understanding of the technical needs of our biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients.
Our clients range from emerging and venture capital companies to universities and research institutes to global market leaders. We work closely with our clients’ in-house innovators and management to craft winning strategies to advance our client’s objectives.