Eversheds International

Intellectual Property

Pharma and healthcare

Our biosciences and pharmaceuticals group is a highly recommended, multi-disciplinary team of lawyers, many with strong scientific backgrounds. Our scientific knowledge and legal experience within this sector means we understand the legal and regulatory challenges facing bio and pharma companies, enabling us to provide practical, commercial advice. Our clients include start-ups through to multinational companies and range across biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostics, and agrochemical business sectors as well as venture capital firms, banks, research institutes and universities and their spin-off companies.

We have advised clients on a full range of issues, including agreements for IP exploitation such as licensing, assignment, cooperation, joint ventures, and research and development agreements and the development of strategies for protecting, valuing and exploiting patents. We have also successfully acted for clients involved in disputes relating to ownership, validity, revocation and infringement of intellectual property.

In addition, we have one of the largest healthcare sector groups in the UK, advising over 100 NHS bodies, major private healthcare providers, purchasers and suppliers to the NHS and internal investors into the UK healthcare market. Our healthcare group’s intellectual property work has included strategic advice on the management and exploitation of IP.

Main services in this area include:

advising on collaborations involving intellectual property and assisting with research and development agreements, cooperation and joint ventures
development of strategies for managing, protecting, valuing and exploiting patents
licensing, assignments and other intellectual property transactions
disputes relating to ownership, validity, revocation and infringement of intellectual property.