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

