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Morrison Foerster

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Morrison Foerster counsels clients at the intersection of life sciences, healthcare, and technology across their business lifecycles. With a ‘very strong scientific foundation’, the firm has a strong IP practice, proficient in litigation, counsel strategy, prosecution, and licensing and commercialization agreements. The firm is also active in the regulatory, corporate transactions, and emerging companies and venture capital spaces. Michael Ward, an expert in agricultural IP prosecution and portfolios, leads the team with co-head and patent litigator Daralyn Durie; both are based in San Francisco. Brigid Bondoc leads the FDA team from Washington DC, whereas Palo Alto’s Catherine Polizzi and San Diego-based Karen Potter are patent specialists. New additions to the team include IP litigators Todd Krause, Bindu Donovan, and Alyssa Monsen – all joining the New York office from Desmarais LLP.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘MoFo has done a great job as patent counsel of a biotech company. Their key strength has been their ability to support the patent portfolio as the company and its technology has matured from exploratory research to the selection of a lead compound, now in Phase III clinical trials. Along the way, there were patent landscape searches and analyses, multiple due diligence processes where MoFo admirably represented the company's patents and strategy, and we are now in the phase of focusing on patent term extensions for multiple worldwide patent filings in multiple patent families. We have consistently been pleased with MoFo's performance and MoFo has the confidence of our management.’

  • ‘The team is very strong in understanding complex, multidisciplinary, conceptual new technology. They work extremely well as a team, each bringing different kinds of scientific understanding and background.’

Key clients

  • 10x Genomics
  • 9amHealth

Work highlights

  • Represented Shoreline Biosciences Inc. against several patent infringement claims.
  • Providing strategic patent counseling and prosecution services to Genentech.