Overview

Goulston & Storrs’ interdisciplinary team counsels non-profit and for-profit clients throughout the cycle of innovation and commercialization. We help our clients navigate intellectual property affecting their operations, including copyright, patents, trade secrets and know-how. We advise both non-profit academic and research institutions, and for-profit ventures across all aspects of technology development and innovation, including in the fields of biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, privacy & security, hardware, software and multi-media. We regularly craft and negotiate successful relationships for research, development, technology transfer, joint ventures, licensing, finance, manufacturing, OEM, VAR and more.

Our extensive experience also includes:

  • Bio-tech and hi-tech facilities development
  • Cross-border collaborations
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics and conflicts of interest
  • Institutional consulting
  • Incubation of new technologies
  • Intellectual property strategies
  • Joint ventures and consortia
  • Licensing
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Regulatory compliance, including export controls, FDA, HIPAA, Anti-Kickback and Stark laws
  • Reimbursement matters
  • Spin-outs
  • Sponsored research (corporate, foundation and governmental)
  • Tax-exempt structuring and compliance