The biotechnology and life sciences industry is changing rapidly, fueled by revolutionary scientific advances and technological innovations. Sutherland’s biotechnology and life sciences practice spans a broad range of legal services for clients, including intellectual property, corporate organization and financing, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) counseling, tax counseling, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.
We help protect and commercialize discoveries from research centers, bio-entrepreneurs and multinational companies in molecular diagnostics, vaccines and prophylactics, pharmaceuticals and drug discovery, drug delivery, stem cell and tissue engineering, genetics and protein expression, biotechnology research tools, medical devices, environmental biocompatibility, and animal and agricultural biotechnology. Many of our lawyers hold pertinent advanced technical degrees to better represent clients.
Our Intellectual Property attorneys provide a broad range of services to clients in the biotechnology and life sciences industry, including:
- Patentability opinions
- Patent drafting and U.S. and foreign patent prosecution
- Freedom-to-practice opinions
- Patent infringement analysis and strategy counseling
- Technology transfer, licensing and other cooperative commercialization and development agreements
- Complex intellectual property litigation and interferences
- Confidentiality and material transfer agreements
We also provide advice and counseling to clients in the biotechnology and life sciences industry in areas such as:
- Organization of corporations, partnerships and LLCs
- Employment agreements
- FDA regulations
- Stock option and employee benefits plans
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants
- Angel, seed and venture capital financing
- Initial public offerings
- Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
- International transactions
- Tax counseling, restructuring and controversy resolution
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