Fenwick & West's Life Sciences Industry Group consists of attorneys and scientists who have grown up with the life sciences sector. Although we are probably best-known for our deep and longstanding expertise in life sciences litigation, we provide a full range of legal services to our clients. We partner with them, often from formation, on a broad range of areas.

• Experienced counsel who engage in strategic analysis and provide comprehensive strategic business advice and services including licensing, commercial partnering, pharmaceutical distribution, due diligence and opinion work
• Attorneys, patent agents, and in-house scientific staff with Ph.D. and Masters degrees in a variety of life sciences disciplines, including direct experience with:
  • neuroscience
  • organic chemistry
  • potential drug target and method of treatment inventions
  • protein and nucleic acid-based inventions
  • small molecule chemistry and pharmaceuticals
  • medical devices
  • drug delivery systems
  • molecular biology assays, tools and techniques
• Corporate and public-company securities specialists with deep expertise in the particular disclosure issues regularly faced by pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device companies.
• Business-savvy management of patent drafting and prosecution resources so that applications are handled with an eye toward their strategic importance to the company's business.
• Comprehensive intellectual property litigation services, with extensive experience in "bet the company" patent litigation.

Our life sciences clients range from investors and academic institutions to biotech startups and established pharmaceutical firms.

Fenwick & West's community involvement program is broad-based: in addition to our extensive pro bono commitment, we provide financial and volunteer support to a variety of non-profit organizations that operate in the greater Bay Area. We also promote diversity within the firm: in 2006, we were ranked by Minority Law Journal as the second most diverse law firm in the United States.

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