Patents

Our Approach

Our patent attorneys, patent agents and technical specialists hold undergraduate and/or advanced degrees in computer, electrical and mechanical engineering, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology or other related areas. Many team members also have worked outside the legal field as business industry leaders or as cutting-edge researchers. These combined experiences give us the legal and business acumen to provide clients with the strategic counsel necessary to develop strong, innovative and enforceable patent portfolios integral to business success.

Our goal is always to develop a patent strategy that neutralizes our clients’ competition. We remove obstacles and help clients stay ahead of patent laws and judicial decisions, including the ever-changing post-issuance America Invents Act procedures. Furthermore, we provide solutions for navigating around competitors’ patents. We have extensive experience helping clients maintain rights and ownership, protect assets, generate revenue from patents and leverage the technologies of the future.

Our Experience

• Represent Vanderbilt University, a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, in drafting and filing patent applications and managing a patent portfolio.
• Assist Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (“SEL”), a Japan-based company that engages in the research and development of crystalline thin film integrated circuits, liquid crystal and organic electroluminescent displays, semiconductor thin film transistors, lithium-ion batteries, oxide semiconductors and wireless elements in building and managing its U.S. patent portfolio, which is focused on semiconductor and flat panel displays.
• Assist Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a major Boston research hospital that is part of the Partners Healthcare not-for-profit health care system, with creating a program that educates researchers and hospital technology transfer staff on IP protection to protect specific technologies.
• Assist California Institute of Technology, a private doctorate-granting university, on managing a portfolio of U.S. and international patents.
• Assist Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School that has been ranked by U.S. News as the #1 hospital in Massachusetts, in managing an extensive portfolio of patents.
• Represent Partners Healthcare, a Boston-based nonprofit hospital and physicians network that includes Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, on managing an extensive portfolio of patents related to ground-breaking innovations in immune therapy for cancer treatments and gastrointestinal disorders.
• Assist Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a nonprofit, hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, on a range of patent prosecution matters and tech transfer matters, including licensing and spin-off transactions, collaboration agreements, material transfer agreements and confidentiality agreements.
• Assist sComm, a consumer electronics company focused on developing technology to enhance personal interactions with those in the deaf community, in building and managing a patent portfolio with their products, particularly their wireless face-to-face communication device, which facilitates real time texting for mobile devices.
• Assist the Wyss Institute, a cross-disciplinary research institute at Harvard University focused on developing new bio-inspired materials and devices for applications in health care, manufacturing, robotics, energy and sustainable architecture, in building a patent portfolio related to specific technologies.
• Represent Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, a nonprofit, pediatric academic medical center, in managing a large patent portfolio.