We counsel clients on the issues that arise when life sciences and information technology collide.

Fish offers the full range of services for protection of intellectual property in digital health, including:

Worldwide prosecution support, patent drafting, and patent portfolio management.
Patent portfolio planning and analysis
Opinions on freedom to operate, infringement, validity and patentability
Transactional due diligence for financing, evaluation, and acquisition of new technologies

Our litigators handle many key competitor cases, including asserting our clients’ IP to maintain market share, and defending against suits that threaten our clients’ business focus.

Our teams have handled some of the biggest and most high-profile patent cases in the nation. We also defend against lawsuits by non-practicing entities that threaten our clients’ bottom line, and often manage joint defense groups to provide the most effective and efficient representation.

Without the proper authorizations from the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Communications Commission, groundbreaking medical devices cannot be lawfully marketed in the United States. Fish is perfectly positioned to address the legal and business issues that digital health presents. Our depth of technical and legal prowess in the life sciences, medical device, and information technology industries, combined with our unique mix of intellectual property, litigation, and regulatory practice areas, provide a strong basis for understanding and appreciating what is happening at the convergence of these fields.

We also work with clients to develop and maintain strong brands through trademark prosecution, counseling, and enforcement. We regularly review advertising copy, product packaging, and other promotional materials, and provide advice on best practices for advertising claims. We offer similar support on copyright issues, handling claims of false and misleading advertising and unfair competition.

Clients turn to Fish to help them make sense of an ever-expanding industry.

As software and mobile medical applications blur the lines of what is and is not subject to medical device regulation, Fish helps developers understand their obligations.

We work with medical device manufacturers, developers, and wireless medical technology companies to navigate the still-evolving regulations of both the FCC and FDA. Under the rules of the FCC, wireless devices must be tested for compliance with various technical standards before they may be imported, marketed, or operated in the U.S. The FDA oversees the safety and effectiveness of such devices for patient use. The range of products that are classified and regulated as medical devices is broad and can include smartphone software applications as well as conventional devices fitted with radio communication features.

We combine our legal and technical skill to achieve results.

As a premier global intellectual property law firm, we leverage both the legal experience and technical skills of our attorneys to get the best possible outcomes for our clients. Our leading data privacy and security professionals are Certified Information Privacy Professionals/United States by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Many of our attorneys previously served as in-house counsel or owned their own businesses and understand what clients need in order to protect and commercialize their valuable IP.