We Ignite Your IP Strategy
From initial concept until a product comes off the market, we are a full-service IP law firm that ensures you have the right IP strategy, IP rights and solutions to meet your needs and philosophy.
We help breeders, inventors and companies protect and market their agriculture related innovations.
We can help your business through the use of utility patents, plant patents, design patents, plant breeders’ rights, and trademarks. We have over 30 years of experience protecting agronomic traits, including exogenous and native traits, germplasm, crop inputs, hydroponic and greenhouse technologies as well as plant production and agriculture lighting technologies.
Protecting Plant and Agriculture Innovations
Plant and Agriculture Innovations
Biotech Innovations
Pharmaceutical, Formulations and Compositional Innovations
Plant, Ag and Biotech IP is not like other IP
Why Choose Us?
Since 2005, our agriculture, horticulture and biotech team of IP attorneys have focused and specialized their practice on matters directly related to plant, microbial and agriculture intellectual property rights including Plant patents, Utility Patents, Plant Breeders Rights (US PVPs), trademarks and licensing, in the US and internationally. Our firm has a 98% success rate in biotech/ag patents and we were the number one ranked firm nationwide in 2016. We also prosecute approximately 10 to 15% of all US Plant Patents.
James Weatherly
Karen Bechtold
Who We Are
Our IP team is recognized worldwide for their expertise in plant and agriculture IP matters and are regular presenters at conferences both in the US and internationally, as well as regular contributors to columns in SeedWorld, GrowerTalks and other industry trade journals.
Formulations and Compositional Experts
Our IP attorneys can assist you in the management of your IP portfolio, patent prosecution of formulation/compositional type innovations, global trademark prosecution and management and general IP counseling