An entire company’s survival may well depend on its ability to develop its intellectual capital. In turn, management and investors depend on the ability of IP legal counsel to defend and protect those IP assets ensuring a company’s vitality and viability. Gershon Capital has the broad legal experience and the specific scientific background to successfully navigate the many challenges members of the life science industry face. The firm provides world-class litigation services, and approaches all IP matters as potential litigations to be won or avoided. Healthcare and life science companies rely on us to apply this approach in our substantial patent prosecution, licensing, opinion work and counseling practices.
Areas of Expertise:
• Analyze the scope of patent protection and costs (which vary around the world) and how that may impact your company.
• Investigating the potential patent protection and freedom to operate issues of your IP and how it can favorably impact product design, investor interest and commercialization.
• To determine when to sue a competitor for patent infringement and whether the competitor’s activities are under the safe harbor of 35 USC 271(e)(1).
• To determine whether injunctions and/or monetary damages are available against your competitors.
• To determine whether attorney fees may be recovered from patent litigation.