Biotechnology is a broad term used to describe the exploitation of biology—biological knowledge, biological techniques, and biological organisms—for human needs, especially in medicine, agriculture, and food science.
Kolisch Hartwell has an active and longstanding biotechnology practice. Our attorneys and agents practicing in this area have undergraduate or advanced degrees in biological, chemical, bioengineering, and biomedical disciplines. Many have significant experience in primary research conducted in academic and industrial settings, publications in peer-reviewed journals, and practical, hands-on experience using and developing biotechnology.
Reflecting our strong combination of legal and technical skills, our clients have entrusted us to pursue patent rights on their behalf in diverse areas:
- Compositions: gene products, recombinant DNA, fluorescent probes, nanoparticles, magnetic particles
- Assays: drug-screening assays, blood assays, fluorescence assays, antibody assays, calorimetric assays, genetic assays, enzyme assays (e.g., kinases, phosphatases, phosphodiesterase, and cyclases, among others)
- Fluorescence methodologies: polarization, anisotropy, total internal reflection, photobleaching recovery, correlation spectroscopy, microscopy
- Apparatus: microplate and microchip readers, microplates, microchips, fluid dispensers, microscopes.
Our portfolio shows some representative biotech patents that we have prosecuted.
We also assist biotechnology clients with patentability searches, freedom-to-operate opinions, infringement and validity analyses, licensing, and litigation.
The techniques, applications, and products of biotechnology are certain to continue to evolve into the distant future. Intellectual property law in this area remains as dynamic as the discipline itself. Kolisch Hartwell closely follows technical and legal developments in biotechnology and bioengineering to give our clients first-class advice and representation in this area. Moreover, because Kolisch Hartwell has attorneys with expertise in nearly every technology area, we can assist our biotechnology clients with inventions that span technologies or that lie in other technologies.