Dhruv Kaushal has more than a decade of experience serving as strategic counsel to life sciences clients in patent matters and technology transactions. Drawing on a diverse background in private practice and as a research scientist, in-house legal counsel and a member of the founding team of a cell therapy startup, Dhruv helps clients understand and manage the full scope of intellectual property-driven challenges facing their businesses.

Clients ranging from small biotech startups to Fortune 500 companies look to Dhruv as a thought partner in protecting innovations, managing third-party intellectual property risk and facilitating transactions involving intellectual property assets.  His practice encompasses patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management, analyses of patent scope and validity, patent landscapes and white-space, new product clearance and preparation of formal opinions of counsel on invalidity or noninfringement, negotiation and drafting of licenses and other IP-focused commercial agreements, providing IP support for M&A and financing transactions, and post-grant patent proceedings before the USPTO.

As a former in-house patent attorney, Dhruv is experienced in tailoring legal services to address specific business challenges and in translating legal work product into actionable information for stakeholders at all levels of client organizations. He leverages his operating experience to help clients execute on their IP strategies through services including patent portfolio audits and patent quality assessments, IP activity roadmaps for R&D enterprises, and implementing and owning client-side processes for management of patent assets and third-party patent risk.