Legal Digest: Patent Disputes in Life Sciences (June 2025)
02 June 2025
Intellectual Property
- IP audit and identification of unpatented & patentable developments
- Patent services (landscape analysis, patentability assessment, patent playbook development, patent filing, licensing, and technology commercialization)
- Protection of regulatory dossier data, preclinical & clinical trial results, and creation of additional IP assets through trade secrets and know-how
- R&D project support, including progress monitoring and results documentation
- Structuring ownership and transfer of IP rights for innovations
- Technology protection against competitors and patent trolls
- Patenting of microorganism strains, GM crops, and biopesticides
- Registration of breeding achievements (plant varieties, animal breeds)
- Protection of know-how in biofertilizers and agrotechnologies
Finance & Tax
- Tax optimization system audit and development
- Mapping of applicable tax incentives, subsidies, and government support measures
- Support for R&D cost accounting optimization procedures
- Tax assessment of financing methods
- VAT and profit tax benefits for bioproduction manufacturers
- Tax support for agricultural bio-product exports
- Tax optimization for participants in state agricultural development programs
Employment
- Employment structuring for researchers and scientific staff, including contractors
- Employment agreements for breeders and field researchers
- NDA development, trade secret regimes, compliance system implementation (including NDAs for staff working with GM materials)
- Labor dispute resolution and support
Antitrust
- FAS Russia M&A transaction approvals
- Policy development for antitrust risk mitigation
- Pricing compliance consulting for antitrust requirements
Compliance
- Development and legal formalization of compliance processes
- Advisory on compliance with industry association codes (including AIPM Code)
- Compliance training programs for client teams
- Big medical data and AI healthcare project support
Contract Issues
- Contractor relationship contract framework development
- Clinical trial agreements with technology rights allocation
- International market entry contract structures
- Collaboration projects with research institutions and government entities, including risk mitigation for government-funded projects
- Field trial agreements for GM crops
- Bioproduct distribution agreements
Corporate Law
- Startup registration and ongoing support
- Pharmaceutical holding restructuring (including R&D center establishment)
- Corporate governance for research-production entities
- Agricultural biotech joint ventures with international partners
- Corporate disputes in breeding centers
- Investment agreement preparation for greenhouse complexes
Data Privacy
- Patient data processing audit for clinical trials
- Genetic information handling policy development
- Data confidentiality and exclusivity protection
- Sensitive data processing system analysis and development, including cross-border data transfer
- Employee data protection at research stations