Life Sciences and Chemistry
Overview
Life science and chemistry industries serve the world and they deserve both encouragement and protection. It is critical to have a proper intellectual property strategy and robust protection to successfully maneuver in this fiercely competitive field. Volpe Koenig’s Life Sciences and Chemistry group has the legal and scientific experience clients need and provides effective intellectual property strategies to businesses and universities of all sizes and prominence. Our professionals have research backgrounds in molecular biology, chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, genetics and more — giving our team a broad depth of knowledge in a wide array of scientific disciplines.
Volpe Koenig’s professionals understand the science, business, and regulatory milestones required to navigate the arduous research and development phases during the innovation life cycle. Our team also includes Ph.D. scientist attorneys and patent professionals with extensive experience in procuring patent rights not only in the U.S. but across the globe. Our attorneys also enforce intellectual property rights for our clients or defend them from third parties in patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes, whether through litigation, inter partes review, or alternative dispute resolution, such as settlement negotiations, mediation, and arbitration.
Our professionals also work closely with universities, start-up companies, and small companies and have developed a thorough understanding of the unique capital and business challenges faced by these organizations. We are committed to providing effective legal counseling at a reasonable cost and with creative rate structures.
Our Life Sciences and Chemistry team serves most technologies in these sectors, including:
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Antibodies
- Biologics
- Biomedical devices
- Bioprocess engineering
- Biosimilars
- Biotechnology
- Cell biology
- Cell Therapy
- DNA and proteins
- Consumer healthcare products
- Delivery devices
- Genetics
- Immunotherapy
- Industrial chemical compositions
- Molecular engineering
- New chemical entities
- Pharmaceutical compositions and formulations
- Small molecules
- Therapeutics
- Vaccines
Proficiencies & Successes
BiotechnologyOur professionals work in a wide variety of life science technologies, from nucleic acid vaccines to transgenic plants, antibodies, chimeric T-cell receptors, cell therapy, and more.
PharmaceuticalsOur attorneys and patent professionals have real world professional experience from pharmacy to biochemistry and organic synthesis.
CannabisVolpe Koenig’s cannabis team works with distributors, retailers, suppliers, and investors to secure and protect their innovations and brands.
Medical DevicesFrom well-funded startups to multinational conglomerates, Volpe Koenig has a wide breadth of experience representing clients that design, manufacture and market medical devices.
Technology TransferWe work with U.S. and international universities to ensure applications are marketable with enough appeal to entice investors.
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- 06.09.2021
This week on IP Goes Pop! Volpe Koenig attorney and Ph.D., Douglas Bucklin joins co-hosts and shareholders Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue to travel back in time, and somehow also to the future, to explore intellectual property interests in the area of genetic engineering.
In this episode, Michael, Joe, and Doug discuss, among other pop culture icons, the Jurassic Park movies and how the genetic engineering in those movies relates to science and intellectual property in the real world. They also explore the current status and methodologies of genetic engineering, how intellectual property laws consider DNA, and how close science may be to bringing back the dinosaurs…
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