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Businesses whose core assets are intellectual property are fundamentally different from other enterprises. They create assets differently, develop and commercialize assets differently, and finance and realize upon assets differently. At Lowenstein Sandler, the attorneys in the Tech Group not only understand these differences, they are thought leaders who identify, define, and exploit these differences for the benefit of investors, inventors, and institutions across the technology spectrum. Our clients create, finance, and commercialize new technologies across industries; we work with inventors, businesses, and investors in software, financial services technology, biotech and pharmaceuticals, communications, alternative energy, clean tech, semiconductors, and nanotechnology, among others.
The Tech Group helps create intellectual property assets for institutions as scientifically and geographically diverse as Rutgers, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NJIT, and Princeton. Businesses such as Sarnoff, JP Morgan Chase and Merck turn to the patent prosecutors in the Tech Group to help build and protect their portfolios, as do dozens of lesser-known but no less vital early stage companies. Venture investors focused on financing technology also rely on the Tech Group in assessing IP portfolios.
As IP assets are developed, thought leadership continues to be vital. The Tech Group’s development team handles all manner of transactions, from tech transfer and corporate spin-outs to strategic alliances, research collaborations, outsourcing, and development agreements. Clients ranging from well-known names like D&B, State Street Bank, MetLife, and Sandoz to cutting-edge private and publicly traded companies alike, such as Datran Media, LifeCell, and Indian all look to the Tech Group as they look to the future.
Financing the creation and development of technology is challenging in the best of times. Here, the Tech Group claims national attention, with involvement in the largest and most complex financings on the national venture stage. Representing many leading venture firms, it is no surprise that the Tech Group has taken an important role in the National Venture Capital Association and has closed more than 300 venture and angel financings in the last two years. As a leader in the field, the Tech Group co-founded the region’s most successful angel network — AngelVineVC. As assets mature, the Tech Group is there to assist in realization transactions from IPO to M&A to licensing. In addition to assisting in the sale of dozens of successful venture backed companies, the Tech Group also represents buyers like D&B, Lucent, and VNU-USA.
At all stages of development, the Tech Group brings experience, expertise, access, and skill to the service of our clients.
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