Transformative Legal has experience in every aspect of patent law and practice (we do not currently handle patent litigation). We have extensive experience in invention capture, patent drafting, patent prosecution, freedom-of-operation analyses, patent due diligence, patent landscape analysis (including whitespace mapping), patentability investigations, invalidity opinions, and dispute management. We can support or handle inventorship, ownership, and valuation matters relating to patents.
TL also conducts trademark clearance investigations and trademark protection assessments, and we routinely secure trademark registrations in the US and abroad. We have extensive experience protecting trade secrets and have developed unique strategies to do so. We also bring experience in copyright protection strategies and copyright registration. The TL team also helps clients protect designs through design patents and other strategies, handles internet domain disputes, and supports other areas of intellectual property law.
Transformative Legal has deep experience in technology/IP licensing and M&A transactions. Our team can handle complex negotiations and transactions as effectively as, if not more effectively than, many larger law firms, but at a fraction of the cost. Since 2017 alone, we have concluded several technology acquisitions, dozens of licenses, and scores of other innovation-related contracts, with total transaction values in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Transformative Legal has experience with nearly every kind of technology-related contract. We regularly draft, negotiate, and manage confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements, material transfer agreements, joint venture agreements, supply agreements, distribution agreements, and other contracts.
Transformative Legal has a growing regulatory, compliance, and quality practice primarily focused on FDA-related matters. Len Smith received global RAC certification through RAPS (for both drugs and devices) and has extensive experience in regulatory and compliance-related matters. Transformative’s extended contractor team includes a head of compliance for a mid-sized pharmaceutical company and a head of quality/regulatory for several innovative life science companies. We also handle matters involving privacy, advertising compliance, and similar issues related to promoting innovative products. Examples of our regulatory-related projects include analysis, counseling, and drafting relating to GRAS submissions, advertising compliance, regulatory exclusivity determinations, FDA distribution regulations, U.S. privacy laws, regulatory product classification, and 510(k) strategies.
Although we work in several interrelated areas of law, Transformative Legal is NOT a general practice firm. We focus on areas where we believe our ability to understand technology and apply it to law, combined with our knowledge of technological/creative industries, allows us to stand apart from general practice law firms. We believe understanding interrelated parts of the law that interface with technology development and related areas of innovation creates value for our clients, but we remain specialized and focused in those areas. For these reasons, we do not seek to practice environmental law, employment law, tax law, energy law, etc.