Earlier this year, in collaboration with Lake Whillans and our sister site MedCity News, we published the second edition of the Life Sciences Law Firm Index to help identify which law firms are the most active and relevant for life science companies.
The goal of the Index is to inform innovators about which firms are the leaders in the multi-faceted interplay between the legal market and the life sciences industry. Life sciences innovators rely on strong legal counsel to protect their interest at every stage of the product life cycle. However, in the case of an unforeseen and unavoidable setback, Lake Whillans is there to step in and help.
The Index was compiled using the criteria that matter most to healthcare innovators. In addition to collecting data in three practice categories — corporate, intellectual property, and regulatory — we also incorporated information on the firms’ work with startup companies, as well as their thought leadership efforts in order to generate the Index scores.
Throughout the year, we’ve been publishing updates to the Index, each focusing on a different practice area. Today, we look at the Patent category. Our ratings of firms’ practices take into account all aspects of patent work, including prosecution (numbers of patents granted, “allowance rate”) and litigation (including cases brought and successful defenses on behalf of industry clients).
The top three law firms in the Patent category through Q3 2017:
- Perkins Coie
- Wilson Sonsini
- Cooley
Congratulations to these firms! For the full update and more details, please see here.