Your company’s most valuable asset is its proprietary technology. Proprietary technology should also be your company’s strongest weapon in the marketplace, especially in today’s rapidly evolving and highly competitive biotechnology industry. Whether your technology resides in a number of well-defined products or a technology platform, at Townsend we help you secure your market position by building a patent portfolio that defines your company’s technological territory and gives you exclusive rights to it worldwide.
Townsend’s lawyers specialize in helping start-up biotechnology companies develop their patent portfolios quickly and strategically, to achieve the strongest possible market positions for their technologies. As small start-ups evolve into larger, successful ventures, we provide a variety of patent-related legal services. Our attorneys can help secure enforceable patent rights both in the United States and throughout the world. We help you manage your company’s patent portfolio and in developing a corporate patenting strategy. We have extensive experience in:
- Litigation
- Interferences
- Oppositions
- Appeals
- Due diligence
- Patentability searches
- Freedom-to-operate searches
- Validity analyses
- Infringement analyses
- Agreements and contracts relating to patents, such as license agreements, research and development agreements, and nondisclosure agreements, including both preparation and review.
Areas of specialized expertise include:
- Antibodies
- Bio fuels
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Serological
- Cell biology
- Cell culture
- Diagnostics
- Gene chips
- Gene therapy
- Genomics
- Membrane proteins
- miRNA
- Molecular biology
- Nucleic acid chemistry
- Personalized medicine
- Protein chips
- Proteomics
- RNA
- siRNA
- SNPs
- Transgenetics
With our resources, we can help build your company’s intellectual property into a body of powerful, highly valued assets. With our wide range of services, we can help secure and protect your innovative biotechnology-related technologies to allow your company to capitalize on and profit from those technologies to the fullest degree. We look forward to working with you to meet your goals.