Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts: Top boutique for

Nanotechnology

In the field of nanotechnology, Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts is one of the top boutique intellectual property law firms, reports journalist Charles Q. Choi in the article " Nano World: Lawyers key to nano-revolution," New York United Press International (UPI) Oct. 8 2004. As technologist are making new strides in the field of nanotechnology, explains Choi, it will be of vital importance to enlist the services of lawyers during the process. Choi quotes John Miller, a managing editor at the journal Nanotechnology Law & Business and vice president of intellectual property for Arrowhead Research Corp., a nanotech company in Pasadena, Calif, stating that "it's crucial to establish as broad and effective a patent protection as possible." In addition, Miller explains that "intellectual property helps get investors excited -- it becomes a tool to raise capital. Investors see it as a key to competitiveness and have more willingness to throw money at companies with more solidified (intellectual property) IP portfolios." Having a good law group helps keep an IP portfolio in order by filing patent paperwork by deadlines, filing internationally, "and all the basic, boring stuff law firms do," he continued. "There's much IP you need to make sure is organized, and a good patent lawyer will help you understand what others can do to design around your claims and design your claim accordingly." Choi later quotes Valerie Fontaine, a founding partner of Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith, a legal search consultant firm in Los Angeles, who divides the legal entities, participating in this area of law, into two different groups. The first is comprised of "general-practice firms that have put together nanotech groups drawing from their expertise elsewhere, such as intellectual property, mergers, acquisitions, financing, regulations, lobbying and treaty law" The second group includes intellectual-property boutique firms, firms that specialize in dealing with only IP related issues of law. Within the second group, Fountaine cites Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts as one of the top IP boutique law firms in the field of nanotechnology. need a loan fast with bad credit bad credit personal loans for