The Mechanical / Biomedical Devices Group includes professionals with a spectrum of technical backgrounds and industry experience. Our group members have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in fields ranging from Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering to Aerospace Engineering and Biophysics. Our group members also benefit from professional experience in the biochemical, governmental defense, instrumentation, aerospace, environmental, power systems, and pharmaceutical industries.

Our specialists are dedicated to helping RatnerPrestia's clients achieve their business objectives, whether by securing a competitive advantage for core products or by protecting intellectual property assets for non-core licensing. The members of this group use their extensive industry experience and technical background to gain a thorough understanding of the technologies and needs of RatnerPrestia's clients. We then employ our technical and legal skills to secure comprehensive protection for their valuable innovations.

When comprehensive patent protection is of commercial value to RatnerPrestia's clients, we prepare utility and design patent applications thoughtfully for favorable prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. When protection is of value in foreign jurisdictions, we coordinate the filing and prosecution of patent applications in other countries through our network of foreign associates. We draft all of our patent applications with a view toward securing effective protection for the valuable innovations of RatnerPrestia's clients wherever in the world they may be used.

Mechanical Arts

Our industry experience and strong technical foundation help us to prepare and prosecute effective utility patent applications in the mechanical arts. Our specialists understand the most complicated mechanical systems while appreciating the nuances of simpler mechanisms. Our experience in the mechanical arts has made us facile with the language needed to describe and broadly cover the innovations of RatnerPrestia's clients.

Biomedical Arts

The members of this group also benefit from years of experience in the biomedical arts. That experience has made us comfortable with the language of the medical industry so that we can understand biomedical innovations and the important needs that they satisfy. Our specialists are familiar with biomedical products and procedures at all stages -- whether at the outset of the design process, during manufacturing, or in the operating room. We utilize our experience in the biomedical field to secure meaningful protection for innovations throughout the healthcare industry.

Industrial Designs

When designers incorporate aesthetic features into innovative products, this group helps RatnerPrestia's clients pursue valuable protection for the industrial designs that are borne from the design process. Members of this group appreciate and recognize subtle aesthetic features of an industrial design and utilize their creativity to secure broad protection for those features. Recognizing that consumer products often incorporate both functional and ornamental features, our professionals appreciate the value of protecting such features and utilize their experience to protect both the form and function of such consumer products.

Optical Arts

Members of this group have years of industry experience and advanced degrees to offer a strong technical foundation in the optical arts. That background helps us to prepare and prosecute utility patent applications in the optical arts. Our specialists readily understand complex optical procedures and products as well as their interconnection with other technology areas. Our experience in the optical arts allows us to describe and broadly cover the innovations of the optics industry.