Life Sciences

The attorneys in our life sciences team understand how to work with your biotechnology, pharmaceutical, bioinformatics and agricultural company to maximise the return on your intellectual property assets. We prepare and prosecute patent applications internationally, evaluate the external patent landscape and intellectual property positions of competitors, conducting complex patent invalidity, infringement, due diligence and freedom-to-operate studies and analyses.

We can also work with you to develop a strategic intellectual property plan. We will help you to identify and capture key intellectual property assets, assist in developing and implementing a strategic plan for their protection, and ultimately exploiting these assets to capture and maintain market share or generate revenue. The life sciences team works closely with our commercial team to provide an integrated IP service ‘from ideas to profitability’.

Our life sciences team is comprised of lawyers and patent attorneys with expertise in the biotechnology, healthcare, bioinformatics and agriculture fields. Many have PhDs and other advanced degrees in such fields as cellular biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and chemical engineering. Our expertise spans the range of the life sciences, including such technologies as pharmacogenomics, stem cell technologies, transgenic animals, gene therapy, diagnostics, receptor-ligand interactions, immunomodulators, genetically-modified foods and other techniques and tools used in the biotechnology industry. We understand the business drivers of life science companies.

Investment in keeping up-to-date with international developments in the biotech field means you can be confident that your advice is world-class.