Your Partner in Life Sciences & Chemistry

The life sciences sector is particularly research-intensive and therefore offers significant potential, including for mid-sized companies, to build a strong patent portfolio. At the same time, it is a demanding field of patent law that regularly occupies patent offices and courts: from questions of sufficient disclosure and plausibility to complex distinctions over the prior art.

DTS patent attorneys provide the necessary technical depth and legal experience to build, strengthen, and professionally manage a patent portfolio in these complex matters—from the initial concept through to enforcement.

Our Expertise

Our Life Sciences & Chemistry team combines a broad range of scientific backgrounds with many years of practice in intellectual property law. This includes qualifications as representatives before national patent offices and the European Patent Office (EPO), as well as European Patent Litigators before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

From a technical perspective, our expertise covers in particular:

• Pharmaceuticals and biosciences (including peptide-based active ingredients, biochemistry, biomedicine, and molecular/nutritional medicine topics)
• Medical devices and laboratory technology (e.g., biomedical analytics, neurostimulation, endoscopy, robot-assisted microsurgery, 3D printing, and implant/material-related topics)
• Chemistry (analytical chemistry, organic/inorganic and physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, reaction engineering and process engineering)
• Materials & advanced materials (e.g., nanomaterials and carbon-based materials)

On this basis, we develop IP protection and filing strategies that are technically robust and commercially sound, including for international portfolios.

Our Services

We assess the patentability of your inventions, carry out prior-art searches, and identify, by way of patent mapping, the areas in which filing activities are particularly worthwhile for you.

We support the establishment and maintenance of your patent portfolio and draft patent applications in a way that enables efficient use both nationally and internationally (e.g., Europe as well as subsequent filings, including in the United States, China, or Japan).

We also advise on the commercial exploitation of innovative ideas, from securing and licensing through to the defence and enforcement of your IP rights. We prepare freedom-to-operate (FTO) and validity/robustness opinions, analyse third-party rights as potential risks, and represent you in examination, opposition, appeal, nullity, and infringement proceedings before offices and courts.

In addition, you benefit from our experience in portfolio analysis and related matters, such as employee invention law, in IP due diligence for company sales or acquisitions.

Get in touch with us

We would be pleased to discuss your objectives and develop a tailored IP strategy for your innovations in Life Sciences & Chemistry.