Practice Areas
Protecting Plant, Agriculture. Pharmaceutical, Formulations amd Composition Innovations
IP Strategies
Understanding an inventor’s or company’s business philosophy is an important foundation in helping the developing of an IP strategy. We work with our clients to understand their business philosophies to ensure that we develop an IP strategy that meets their needs and goals.
Want to learn more? Here’s an an article our team wrote for GPN on developing an IP strategy for plant IP.
Patents and Plant Breeders Rights (PBR)
Our team has over 40 years of experience in assisting pharmaceutical, compositional and agricultural companies in protecting their innovations through the use of utility patents, plant patents and plant breeders rights. We know that the work does not end at just getting a patent or PBR, and we can help you design systems to achieve your product or idea to market. Our properly crafted agreements will allow you to have the comfort of knowing your IP rights are being respected.
Here is an article on the basics of plant patents.
Pharmaceutical and Related Technologies
Our team specializes in IP portfolio assessments and due diligence with an eye toward potential investment assets, patent prosecution, and the intersection between IP and regulatory agency reviews to help you maximize your investment and portfolio spend without sacrificing important time on the market, whether it's a brand or generic drug product, platform technology, cosmetological or other health related product.
Trademarks
We also help companies market their plant and drug related innovations through proper trademarks and branding. We also counsel our clients in proper trademark usage.
Here is an article we wrote for SeedWorld to help explain the difference between Trademarks and Plant Names: It’s Not Just Patents and PVPs
Licensing
Plant and biotech related innovations are unique. Our team has over 40 years of experience drafting and negotiating license agreements directed to agricultural and pharmaceutical technologies. We know the questions to ask to ensure that you have the proper licenses and agreements in place when it comes to flowering and fruit plants, row crops, hemp, sod and vegetable plants, as well as biotechnological innovations, brand and generic drug products, and platform technologies.
This article, written by James Weatherly for SeedWorld, helps explain the nuances of licensing in the plant and agriculture space: Licensing Today’s Innovations
IP Compliance
We can assist our clients in an assortment of IP compliance techniques including license audits, IP investigations, and enforcement of IP rights.
Our team wrote this in depth article to help explain the basics of enforcement of Plant IP: Hey, You Stole My Plant!
Innovation Protection
Protecting your IP globally can feel confusing and daunting. Our team takes the mystery out of global protection and provides clear options for protecting your innovations, company names and logos in a strategic and cost-effective manner.