Soerensen Garcia has specific experience counseling clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Our team combines strong scientific knowledge with legal expertise to provide clients with strategic, thoughtful advice. We strive to understand not just the science, but also the commercial and market forces that affect our clients’ businesses. We provide such services as:

• Conducting prior art searches and providing opinions on patentability
• Assessing third-party rights and developing strategies to avoid or invalidate third-party patents, in order to allow for freedom to operate or to defend claims of infringement
• Providing strategic counseling on regulation of pharmaceuticals by ANVISA (a government agency similar to FDA in the United States and EMA in Europe)
• Preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications and managing patent portfolios in Brazil and internationally
• Negotiating licenses, non-assert agreements, technology transfer agreements, and other commercial agreements related to biotechnology
• Litigating claims relating to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals