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Innovators from all walks of life can get everything they need from MBHB. The respected Chicago boutique puts elite prosecutors, counsellors, post-grant experts and trial lawyers on to the playing field to ensure all-weather patent protection for patrons. The top contacts for life sciences companies are PhDs Donald Zuhn and Kevin Noonan. Zuhn has kept the group at the cutting edge of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in his nearly 25 years with the firm, as has Noonan, the founding author of the Patent Docs weblog – a go-to resource for vital news on patent developments in the life sciences. Their advice is as contemporary and trend aware as it gets. Michael Borella takes the lead on all things software and business methods related and is a fount of insight and analysis on Section 101. Bradley Hulbert chairs the electrical practice group and engages in elevated strategic thinking as a result of his broad advisory, prosecution and litigation experience. Grantland Drutchas takes the reins of the PTAB offering and the licensing side and is a versatile operator. Paul Berghoff and Daniel Boehnen are top trial lawyers.
At McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB), we use our scientific and legal expertise to successfully prosecute, counsel and litigate IP matters. We help individual inventors, start-ups, mid-size companies, academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies protect their innovations.
Clients in the United States and abroad engage MBHB to secure and enforce their IP rights, from navigating patent office procedures to litigating complex infringement actions. Our attorneys are experienced in procurement, licensing, enforcement and defence of patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition actions in a number of technological disciplines and product categories. At MBHB, we offer a mindset unavailable at general practice firms – an understanding of technology and the law. Most of our professionals worked outside of the legal industry before joining the firm. Many of us are not just attorneys and patent agents, but also scientists and engineers. By combining deep technical knowledge with IP law expertise we are able to devise custom strategies that protect our clients’ innovations and support their business success. Our clients know they have put their legal strategies in the hands of knowledgeable, principled professionals who have their best business interests in mind.
With dedicated teams that have practical industry experience in numerous technological disciplines, MBHB draws on deep industry expertise to guide clients on their IP strategies. These teams focus on industries from life sciences to high-tech mechanical and software, including cannabis, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, chemical, electrical, mechanical and materials, medical devices and diagnostics, software and business methods, and telecommunications.
Alongside MBHB’s unsurpassed legal and technical skills, the focus of our professionals remains on clear communication – with judges, juries, patent examiners, other lawyers and, most importantly, clients. Collaboration with clients comes easily. MBHB attorneys and technical advisers speak the language of the scientists and inventors with whom they work. They are up to date on the latest developments in science and technology.
In 2022 MBHB processed more than 5,600 patent applications (including national phase applications) for clients, making it well experienced and capable of handling a variety of patent filings. Over the past 25 years, we have handled more than 100,000 patent applications (including national phase applications) for clients with around 40,000 handled in the past five years only.
We are honoured to be acknowledged as firm and individuals by IAM year after year in the Global Leaders Guide and IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners.
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