Pierce Atwood's team of biotechnology professionals provides advice and strategic counseling to biotechnology clients on patent portfolio development and prosecution, complex licensing transactions, sponsored research, research collaboration and material transfer agreements, as well as advice and counsel on general commercial and transactional work, mergers and acquisitions, complex financing transactions, and securities matters.

Our life sciences patent litigation attorneys have represented both inventors and alleged infringers in patent jury trials and have experience with cutting-edge patent matters involving technologies such as chemical compositions, embryonic stem cell and cloning technology.

Pierce Atwood's life sciences patent prosecution attorneys, many with advanced degrees, have prosecuted hundreds of patent applications directed toward diagnostic and therapeutic inventions, compositions and methods relating to gene therapy; novel proteins and nucleic acids; drug delivery compositions and methods; novel nucleic acid regulatory sequences; compositions and methods for modulating the immune response; techniques for the analysis of nucleic acids; and animal models for disease including transgenic and knockout models. We draw on our industrial and academic research experience in a wide array of disciplines, including molecular biology, neurobiology, cell biology, immunology, biochemistry, genetics, and chemical synthesis.