INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FIRM PROFILES
Firm Overview Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP has focused exclusively on intellectual property law since the Firm’s founding in 1955. The Firm counsels and assists clients throughout the world with protection, enforcement and transfer of intellectual property rights. We deliver perspective where science, law and business converge. Our professionals collaborate with each other and with our clients to provide a sophisticated work product that integrates intellectual property with business goals. We have over 80 attorneys, patent agents and technical specialists with training in many scientific, technical and legal disciplines, and an experienced support staff which includes a dedicated docketing department, prosecution and litigation paralegals, and client-focused accounting and administrative staff. More than 90% of the Firm’s attorneys have science or engineering degrees, and many professionals have a PhD or other advanced technical degree. Practice Areas and Industries Served Our professionals’ breadth of technical and legal training allows us to effectively serve the intellectual property needs of Fortune 500 and smaller companies, universities and other non-profit organizations, and startups in virtually all IP services and business sectors. The Firm’s practice areas include: • Copyrights • Design Patents • IP Litigation • IP Transactions • Patent Interferences and Oppositions • Patent Prosecution • Trade Secrets • Trademarks Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Marshall, Gerstein & Borun understands the often unpredictable science and lengthy product development lifecycles for biotechnology and pharmaceuticals and works with clients to devise successful strategies that build US and foreign ][? ???[?? ? ??X???[Y\??X[ ?? X? ?[? ???\??\?X\??[ ?\??Z[? ???[?\?8?(? ???\?Y [????Y[? ??Y?[?Y ][? ????[?X???\[?Y\? ?[][?? ?H?[X?\???[[?Y?\??[???X?? \?XX?]]X?[ ?? X? ?8?(?[?Y?^H ][? ????Y[? ???\?[??[?H [?H?[?Y??\?[???[Y\??X[ HX\??]Y ?? X? ?[??[Y\??\??[?X?[ ?X[?[?Y]\?8?(??Y[? ?[??Y?H?[X?\??T?H\?8?'?H? H?\??[?X?????H ?X?X?\?[? H[?\?H??[? ?K8?'H[?H8?'Y? K\?Y?\?Y??]\]YH? ??Y[??HH??\ ?Z[??]?H ?\??X?K??'HH?\?H[ ?? ?[???[[?? H8?'??8?&\?XY[??[?[X? X[ ??\? H ?X?X?\??'H?? ][? ??[?X?????H[? ?Y[X\???
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