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