Woodcock Washburn assists clients operating in all aspects of the Life Sciences industry to protect and leverage their intellectual property. Our clients are large corporations, emerging businesses, and nonprofit institutions. They include pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, nanotechnology and drug development companies. They also are major research organizations, such as academic institutions. All of these clients benefit from Woodcock Washburn’s extensive experience with the legal issues of intellectual property as well as the broad range of scientific and engineering knowledge within the firm.
Woodcock Washburn provides a wide range of legal services to our Life Sciences clients. We prosecute patents and trademarks. We litigate, mediate, and arbitrate disputes. We provide counsel through opinions, strategic analysis, and portfolio assessment. Our firm facilitates business transactions through due diligence and licensing engagements. Woodcock Washburn only practices intellectual property law, which is why we do it so well, and we provide the full range of IP services for our Life Sciences clients.
The education and experience of our attorneys provide our Life Sciences clients with a unique collection of technical knowledge. All of our Life Sciences attorneys have an undergraduate technical degree and many have advanced technical degrees. The breadth of our lawyers’ technical knowledge is as broad as the scope of the Life Sciences industry; their technical education includes biology, chemistry, biochemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer sciences. Each of these disciplines plays an important role in the intellectual property requirements of Life Sciences products and services. In addition, many of our attorneys have worked in industry as engineers, scientists, and in-house legal counsel, making them thoroughly familiar with the established strategies within the Life Sciences industry and able to inject fresh thinking whenever necessary.
Woodcock Washburn attorneys are leaders in their respective areas of expertise as exemplified by their active roles in industry groups including the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Pennsylvania BIO, the Chemical and Biotechnology Practice Committee of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association, the Association of University of Technology Managers, and the Licensing Executives Society.
Our Life Sciences clients include:
- 3D Pharmaceuticals
- Alza
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Burnham Institute for Medical Research
- Celgene
- Cephalon
- Chiron Corp.
- Dentsply
- Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research
- Isis Pharmaceuticals
- Johnson & Johnson
- Orthovita
- Princeton University
- Seattle Genetics
- Scripps Research Institute
- University of British Columbia
- University of California
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Washington
