Kolisch Hartwell provides a broad range of intellectual property services to the medical device industry, including patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Several Kolisch Hartwell attorneys and agents have education and experience in the medical, surgical, and pharmacological fields. These attorneys and agents understand medical technology. They also know how to navigate the arcane rules that regulate patent protection on medical inventions and have successfully patented a variety of medical devices in both the United States and abroad. Kolisch Hartwell also has an excellent track record representing clients in patent, trademark, and trade-secret disputes in this area.
As shown in our portfolio, Kolisch Hartwell has firsthand prosecution and litigation experience with a broad range of medical devices:
- Surgical instruments: endoscopes, injectors, syringes, reamers.
- Operating-room equipment: vital signs monitors, surgical tables.
- Treatment devices: pacemakers, cardiac stents, urological stents, catheters, orthopedic implants, prosthetic devices, drug and allergen dispensers, patient support systems, oral appliances for treating sleep apnea.
- In vitro diagnostic products: laboratory equipment, reagents, test kits.
- Ultrasound machines, x-ray machines, medical lasers, radiotherapy equipment, medical imaging equipment, and so on.
These medical devices may be used in a variety of medical specialties, in both human and veterinary medicine:
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Kolisch Hartwell’s broad technical expertise also enables it to assist clients pursuing patent protection or resolving disputes centering on technologies that overlap with, or complement, medical devices, including biotechnology, mechanical, optical, software, and electrical inventions.