Overview

For more than 25 years, Lahive & Cockfield has been enhancing and safeguarding our clients’ medical device intellectual property portfolios. Our team includes attorneys, patent agents and technical specialists with engineering, manufacturing, and science backgrounds. We are able to draw upon the legal and technical skills of our professionals to assemble teams tailored to each client’s individual needs.

Services

The Medical Devices group provides strategic intellectual property counseling in building and managing portfolios, forming partnerships, and representating clients during financing and public offerings. We work closely with FDA counsel on regulatory issues. Our experience includes:

  • Patent preparation
  • Patent prosecution
  • Patentability opinions
  • Validity and infringement opinions
  • Freedom to operate
  • Due diligence
  • International filing strategies
  • Licensing & transactions
  • Litigation
  • Trademark prosecution

Case studies

 
 
Our Thinking Expands Yours

The client, a Japan-based company, sought to acquire a Philadelphia company in a $350 million deal. The client needed to identify any hidden risks and obtain a means of compensation or indemnity for such risks. » read more

News & Events

USPTO and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) Launch Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program on September 1 » read more

Giulio A. DeConti Selected to Best Lawyers in America » read more

CAFC Invalidates Patent Covering Methods of Using Gemzar » read more

December 2, 2010
Peter Dini presents "Antibodies: Overcoming Patentability Hurdles and Claim Drafting Strategies for New Technological Developments" at the ACI Biotech Patents Conference » read more

August 30, 2010
James Velema and Peter Dini present "Patenting of Therapeutic Antibodies" to the NRC Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal, Canada » read more

August 26, 2010
Brian Trinque presents "Nonobviousness of Chemical Inventions" at 240th ACS National Meeting » read more

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