Klarquist advises clients across a broad range of industries and technologies, bringing deep technical understanding to the development and protection of intellectual property in complex and rapidly evolving fields. Our patent professionals have diverse scientific and engineering backgrounds, allowing us to understand innovations at a granular level and translate them into strong, strategically aligned IP protection.
Our experience spans life sciences and biotechnology, chemical technologies, computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering, enabling the firm to support complex, multidisciplinary innovations with practical, business-focused intellectual property guidance.
Across these industries, Klarquist partners with startups, established companies, universities, research institutions, and government entities to develop IP strategies grounded in technical reality and aligned with long-term goals.
What sets Klarquist apart is the team’s scientific depth. Many of the firm’s life sciences professionals hold advanced degrees and have hands-on research experience, allowing them to understand sophisticated inventions and translate them into strong intellectual property strategies. Klarquist’s patent attorneys have served as patent counsel for federal laboratories such as the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration, as well as many leading life sciences companies and universities worldwide. Klarquist also has a leading plant patent practice, among the top firms in the nation for plant patents.
Klarquist helps life sciences and biotechnology companies protect innovation across a wide range of technologies, including:
Klarquist supports clients across the full life cycle of innovation, from patent preparation and prosecution to portfolio strategy, patentability, freedom-to-operate, and other IP counseling. The firm represents a wide range of clients, including biotechnology companies, research institutions, universities, and government laboratories.
For life sciences clients, Klarquist offers a combination of technical fluency, focused IP experience, and practical business judgment designed to help valuable ideas move from discovery to protection.
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With almost 20 years of patent experience and a strong scientific research background, Sue helps biotechnology and life sciences organizations protect and maximize their innovations.
Computer science and electrical engineering shape nearly every part of modern life. These technologies are in our pockets, on our desks, in our homes, and increasingly built into the products, systems, and infrastructure that drive the global economy. From smart sensors in automobiles to software platforms used in agriculture, food production, construction, engineering, defense, and workforce management, innovation in CS and EE continues to transform how industries operate and compete.
Klarquist helps clients protect innovation across this fast-moving landscape. Our patent attorneys bring strong technical backgrounds in software, computer science, and electrical engineering, allowing us to understand complex inventions and translate them into practical, high-value intellectual property strategies. We work closely with clients to support patent development in ways that align with both the technology and the business goals behind it. Our experience spans a wide range of computer science and software-related technologies, including:
We have also handled innovations involving cloud and networked platforms, software-enabled devices, and other emerging digital technologies that require both technical fluency and strategic patent judgment. In electrical engineering and related fields, Klarquist attorneys have experience with:
This breadth allows us to support clients working across hardware, software, and integrated technologies, including inventions that sit at the intersection of multiple disciplines.
For clients in CS and EE, Klarquist offers a combination of technical depth, focused patent experience, and practical business perspective. We help innovators protect the technologies that power today’s connected world and the breakthroughs that will define what comes next.
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Greg leads Klarquist’s computer science and software practice, helping clients protect innovations in AI, bioinformatics, software, data systems, and emerging technologies.
Physics and optics are behind many of today’s most advanced technologies, from lasers, imaging systems, and optical communications to semiconductors, sensors, electronics, and precision instruments. Klarquist’s Physics & Optics team is built to support clients working in these technically demanding fields, combining strong scientific training with practical patent experience.
Klarquist Physics & Optics professionals bring both technical training and industry knowledge to physics-related patent work. The firm’s broader patent team also emphasizes deep scientific credentials, with many professionals holding advanced degrees and prior research or industry experience across scientific and engineering disciplines.
The firm’s work in this area covers a wide range of technologies, including:
For clients in physics and optics, Klarquist offers more than technical understanding alone. The firm positions its patent practice around understanding each client’s technology well enough to build strong prosecution strategies and broader IP protection that aligns with commercial goals. That makes Klarquist a strong fit for inventors, research institutions, universities, startups, and established companies developing complex physical and optical technologies.
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Ethan focuses on patents for physics, optics, and engineering innovations, drawing on in-house industry experience and extensive work with laser technologies.
Klarquist helps clients protect innovation across a broad range of chemical technologies. The firm represents startups, major corporations, universities, and government agencies in chemical patent matters, and describes its Chemical Group as having strong backgrounds in various areas of chemistry, as well as group members with past employment in academia and private industry.
The team’s work spans many areas of chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering including:
What sets Klarquist apart is the combination of technical depth and focused patent experience. The firm’s patents group emphasizes understanding each client’s technology in order to build strong protection strategies, and its chemical practitioners bring experience that helps them work effectively with complex research, development, and product pipelines.
For clients in chemical technologies, Klarquist offers practical support across patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio development, and broader intellectual property strategy. Whether the innovation involves pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, industrial chemistry, or emerging chemical processes, Klarquist helps clients turn scientific work into meaningful intellectual property protection.
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A partner in Klarquist’s Chemical Group, Johanna advises clients on patent prosecution and IP strategy across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, polymers, and materials science. She helps innovators protect chemical technologies worldwide.
Klarquist helps clients protect innovation across a broad range of mechanical engineering technologies. The firm’s Mechanical Group brings a wide range of experience and skills, with attorneys who have engineering or science degrees and, in many cases, private-sector experience at technology companies. That background helps Klarquist understand complex products and provide practical patent advice across diverse mechanical fields.
Our team works across a broad spectrum of mechanical and electromechanical technologies, helping clients protect innovations involving:
What sets Klarquist apart is its combination of technical fluency and focused patent experience. Understanding clients’ technologies is central to building strong patent strategies, and the firm’s mechanical practitioners assist with U.S. and international patent preparation and prosecution, as well as patentability, infringement, validity, and broader strategic counseling.
For clients developing mechanical engineering technologies, Klarquist offers practical support grounded in both engineering knowledge and intellectual property strategy. Whether an innovation involves complex equipment, consumer-facing products, manufacturing systems, or integrated electromechanical devices, Klarquist helps clients turn technical advances into meaningful intellectual property protection.
Partner
An engineer and patent attorney with 20+ years of IP experience, Deakin helps clients protect innovations in medical devices, manufacturing, aviation, and consumer products.
Our plant science team prosecutes utility patents, plant patents, and plant variety protection/plant breeders’ rights (PVP/PBR) applications for government, academic, and corporate clients. Our attorneys bring substantial experience in all aspects of plant breeding and biotechnology, including:
Klarquist is well known nationally and internationally for its work involving plant patents and related intellectual property matters. We are among a select group of U.S. law firms that obtain a significant number of plant patents each year for our clients, with experience in this practice area spanning decades.
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With a background in plant cell and molecular biology, Caitlin helps agricultural innovators protect new plant varieties and plant science-based intellectual property.
At Klarquist, we help clients protect the visual features that make products distinctive in the marketplace. Design patents can be a powerful tool for safeguarding product appearance, and we work with clients to determine not only whether design patent protection is available, but also whether it supports their broader business and intellectual property goals. As part of our full-service patent practice, we handle U.S. design patents as well as international design rights.
Our design patent work is grounded in the same understanding that defines our broader IP practice. We take pride in understanding our clients’ technologies, products, brands, and markets, and we use that knowledge to build thoughtful, effective protection strategies. That combination of technical fluency and strategic judgment is especially valuable when clients are evaluating how design patents fit alongside utility patents, trademarks, trade dress, and other forms of intellectual property protection.
For companies developing new products, we provide practical guidance at the earliest stages of protection strategy. Design patent protection can often be obtained efficiently, making it an attractive option for companies looking to strengthen product differentiation and market position. We help clients assess these opportunities in light of product development timelines, competitive considerations, and business objectives.
We also bring broader patent, litigation, and appellate experience to design patent matters. As design rights become more important, clients benefit from working with a team that understands both how to secure protection and how to support enforcement when needed. At Klarquist, our goal is to help clients turn strong product design into meaningful intellectual property value.
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With decades of patent experience, Mike advises clients on design patent strategy and IP protection for products, interfaces, devices, and emerging technologies.