MedTech, Tools, and Devices

Supporting the Life Cycle of MedTech Companies & Products

We help medical technology companies strategically develop markets, meet financing sources and raise funds, deal with health regulatory agencies, and adhere to life in the capital markets.

Awards

Managing Intellectual Property

Top Life Science Patent Practice

IAM Patent 1000

Patent Practice and 6 life sciences attorneys recognized, "World's Leading Patent Practitioners" (2018)

LMG Life Sciences

5 LMG Life Sciences “Stars”

Our Experience

Expedited Diligence in $4.325B J&J Acquisition

Mintz helped two in-house Johnson & Johnson attorneys conduct due diligence for J&J’s $4.325 billion acquisition of Abbott Medical Optics (AMO). Mintz attorneys assessed AMO’s patent portfolio, license and settlement agreements, and patent litigations and made freedom-to-operate assessments.

Mintz Helps Client Navigate Medicare & Medicaid Coverage

Mintz is helping a manufacturer and distributor of device systems used in wound treatment pursue Medicare and Medicaid coverage options throughout the country, including negotiating coding. Mintz attorneys met with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding scope of coverage.

Communication Key in Client's Response to FDA

Mintz is helping a client that manufactures medical technologies for facility and home-based care design and implement corrective actions in response to an FDA follow-up inspection. Although the client has two open FDA inspections, Mintz attorneys have helped the company avoid a warning letter.

Our Approach

Through the coordinated efforts of Mintz and ML Strategies professionals, you have one team to address all of the routine steps and unanticipated challenges of shepherding products through entire life cycle — from concept and design to development and testing, and through the final product launch and commercialization. You also have strategic business advisors who have experience working with large medical technology companies and who provide a comprehensive range of guidance, including in complex transactions, regulatory matters, and patent strategy.

Business Counseling & Transactions

Public company compliance — maintaining compliance with SEC-mandated reporting

Mergers and acquisitions — asset or whole company acquisitions and divestitures; mergers of equals

Strategic alliances — joint venture and collaborative research agreements; development and licensing arrangements

Financings — public securities offerings, private equity transactions, venture capital investments

Patent Prosecution & Counseling

We will help you at any stage of portfolio development to ensure you are on the right path to successfully protecting your competitive position in the marketplace. Our attorneys produce technically excellent patents tailored to international jurisdictional requirements and provide strategic advice on comprehensive portfolio development. We author complex patentability, freedom-to-operate, and inventorship opinions. And we conduct portfolio audits.

Litigation

Products Liability — Develop comprehensive product liability prevention strategies, and provide education and training to management, sales force, and development teams

Intellectual Property — Technically knowledgeable professionals with experience successfully defending companies against claims of infringement, and in enforcing patent rights against infringing competitors

Health Care Enforcement Defense — Vigorous defense against state or federal government investigations or litigation, representation in negotiations of Corporate Integrity Agreements with HHS OIG, and guidance through the self-disclosure process

Health Regulatory & FDA

Regulatory — Counseling on regulatory and reimbursement status of products and procedures, and on strategic pathways for bringing new products to market

Compliance — Advice to maintain compliance with fraud and abuse laws, and to remain in compliance with FDA and related requirements, including those for product approval, arrangements for outsourced services, advertising, and responses to FDA 483s and warning letters

FDA — Preparation and prosecution of marketing applications, devising effective government relations strategies, and responding to FDA enforcement actions

What Our Clients Are Saying

When it comes to law firms, Mintz rolls off my tongue the fastest, especially for a major issues that I don't know how to approach. I know they'll do the analysis and figure it out.

Deputy Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Large Med Tech Company, BTI Client Satisfaction Survey

Mintz is the top of our list for opinion work & due diligence for acquisitions.

Assistant General Counsel - Patents, Large Med Tech Company, BTI Client Satisfaction Survey

Meet Mintz

Our team of Mintz and ML Strategies professionals will help you address the challenges involved in shepherding your product through its entire life cycle.