At Luzzatto and Luzzatto, we understand the complexity involved in commercializing technology in the medical devices and digital health industries, which has grown in importance due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing, and assist our clients with formulating suitable IP strategies.
From groundbreaking start-ups to foreign multinationals, medical equipment companies, medical device incubators, academic institutions, hospitals, doctors, and venture capitalists, clients draw on our extensive experience and broad range of services. These include: obtaining and defending IP, licensing technologies for leading academic institutions, collaboration agreements, sponsored research, material transfer, M&A transactions, as well as litigating medical technology-related cases.
We aim to provide a full IP service drawing on our technical knowledge. To achieve this, we provide each client with a bespoke team of attorneys based upon their specific technical and commercial requirements.
Our extensive team comprises lawyers, patent attorneys, medical device specialists, engineers, and scientists with backgrounds in materials engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, software engineering, physics, optics and electro-optics, biomedical and mechanical engineering – providing clients with the right mix of technical knowledge and IP expertise.
We help our medical device and digital health clients throughout all stages of R&D and commercialization to create and secure a patent portfolio customized to their product and business strategy.
Our practice has proven experience with companies at all stages of development through capital formation, transactional due diligence, patent landscape (market clearance) evaluations, freedom-to-operate analyses, strategic patent prosecution, licensing and other IP agreements, trade secrets, third-party patent evaluations, IP audits and, when necessary, IP litigation in collaboration with the Group’s law firm.
Our professionals help clients navigate the highly competitive, multidisciplinary field of medical devices and digital health in order to properly define the innovative technology and devise a corresponding IP strategy that creates a competitive edge.
