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 inventors and companies protect and market their innovations.
We can help your business through the use of utility patents, plant patents, design patents, plant breeders’ rights, and trademarks. We have over 40 years of experience protecting pharmaceuticals, compositions, 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, Agriculture, Pharmaceutical, Compositional, and Formulation Innovations
Plant, Ag and Biotech IP is not like other IP
Why Choose Us?
Since 2005, our IP attorneys have focused and specialized their practice on matters directly related to plant, microbial and agriculture, and pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device intellectual property rights.
Our firm has had a 98% success rate in biotech / ag patents and a growing pharmaceutical practice. We were ranked the number one firm in biotech and ag nationwide in 2016, and we prosecute approximately 5 to 10% of all US Plant Patents annually.
James Weatherly
Karen Bechtold
Who We Are
Our IP team is recognized worldwide for their expertise in pharmaceutical, 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.
Pharmaceutical, 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