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Biotechnology
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The attorneys of our Biotechnology group have years of technical training, including advanced degrees, and legal experience that goes back more than 15 years, in a broad range of biological and biochemical technologies, including molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, immunology, combinatorial chemistry, plant biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, bioinformatics, diagnostics, therapeutics, food science and biomechanical inventions. Many of our patents are foundations for start-up companies. Our Biotechnology group collaborates with our Chemical practice in our pharmaceutical practice. In addition to patent preparation, prosecution and opinion work, our attorneys counsel many clients on issues related to start-up and spin-off companies, technology transfers and collaborations between university and industry, and patent litigation.Myers Bigel was rated 13th overall nationally across all industries in a patent quality survey by Intellectual Asset Magazine in its March/April 2010 issue. Myers Bigel's Biotechnology practice was also ranked in the Top Ten nationally in a patent quality survey conducted by Patent Ratings, LLC (now Ocean Tomo) and published in IP Law & Business, March 2004. Ocean Tomo uses a computer model that measures the strength and quality of patents with objective criteria, and scores them with what it calls an "intellectual property quotient" (IPQ). According to this model, Myers Bigel ranked 4th nationally among firms that prosecuted the best biotechnology patents in 2003.View people in the Biotechnology practice area.