
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
From proteomics to molecular diagnostics, innovations in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals have amplified the need for intellectual property counsel who understand both the science and the competitive position of our clients’ businesses. With the diverse talents and backgrounds of our attorneys, Brinks is ideally positioned to counsel clients as varied as small start-ups, prestigious academic institutions and global corporations on the ever-evolving body of law promoting and protecting innovation in the United States and throughout the world.
Many of our biotechnology and pharmaceutical attorneys and agents hold advanced degrees in fields such as organic chemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, genetics and pharmacology. Brinks attorneys are also highly skilled in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in fields as varied as gene therapy, genetic microarrays and tissue engineering. We battle in USPTO interferences to determine priority for world-changing inventions in fields such as transgenic corn and gene therapy and have helped bring technologies and business together by crafting licenses and other agreements from drug discovery to genetic microarrays and beyond. Brinks attorneys continue to fight for high technology in the courts as well, most recently in the prominent Federal Circuit case involving the written description and enablement requirements of antibody inventions.
Seminars & Events
- February 14, 2012
Business Implications of Patent Reform: Taking the America Invents Act Into Account ... - February 7, 2012
2nd Annual Translational Medicine Workshop
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Client Alerts
- September 2, 2011
Federal Circuit Clarifies the Patent Eligibility of Medical Methods in Light of ... - August 9, 2011
Federal Circuit Upholds Claims to Isolated DNA Molecules - June 23, 2011
Patent Reform Passes the House
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Press Releases
- January 6, 2012
Brinks Practice Group Chairs for 2012 Include Five Ann Arbor Shareholders - January 5, 2012
24 Brinks Attorneys Named Illinois Super Lawyers and 10 Named Rising Stars - January 4, 2012
Brinks Attorney Ryan L. Marshall Named to Utah Legal Elite
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IP Resources
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IP Search Tools
- USPTO U.S. Patent Full-Text Database Search IP Laws and Regulations
- U.S. Statutes Search Page Court Information and Decisions
- U.S. Federal Courts IP Professional Organizations
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) IP Government Offices
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Firm Authored Publications
- November 16, 2011
Patent Validity Challenges in the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry
By: Jeffry M. Nichols
IP Frontline - November 2011
Are You Ready for US Patent Reform?
By: Jeffery M. Duncan
Chemistry & Industry - Fall 2011
Defining Prior Art after Patent Reform: Are You Ready for the New 102?
By: Jeffery M. Duncan
The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law News Source
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Representative Cases
- Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz Inc., 07-1400 (Fed. Cir. May 18, 2009) (en banc)
- Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz Inc., 486 F. Supp. 2d 767 (N.D. Ill. 2007)
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News
- September 29, 2011
AnnArbor.com - September 2011
Super Lawyers Business Edition - September 6, 2011
LexisNexis Patent Law Blog
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