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Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice GroupThe fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals present unique challenges due to rapid advancement of the underlying basic sciences coupled with tenuous product development cycles, substantially impaired by strict regulatory requirements. Understanding this, our Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice Group proactively works with clients to implement successful strategies to protect potential and existing commercial products and processes. In addition, our diverse litigation, counseling and prosecution experience enables our attorneys to develop realistic strategies for growing and managing intellectual property portfolios. These benefits also extend to the group’s approach toward helping clients procure domestic and international patents and trademarks, as well as obtain technology transfer and licensing agreements and assist in standards integration. Our commitment to provide clients with unsurpassed intellectual property legal services is accentuated by the group’s technical knowledge in the complex fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Further, with the increasing global need for alternative energy sources, higher crop yields, and desirable traits in plants and animal food products, the group continues to expand its expertise in agricultural biotechnology. Our attorneys hold diverse scientific and technology backgrounds, including cellular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and biomedical and environmental engineering. Our attorneys include those that hold Ph.D. degrees in biotechnology areas with extensive post-doctoral and faculty research experience at leading-edge university medical centers. Our Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice Group provides services to Fortune 500 companies, established publicly or privately held firms, universities and other not-for-profit organizations, start-ups, and inventors. The group provides legal services, including litigation, due diligence, opinions and investigations, right-to-use and freedom to practice, patent prosecution, licensing, portfolio management, technology transfers and M&A support. Further, the group specializes in the following biotechnology and pharmaceutical areas:
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