The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract to Leydig, Voit & Mayer, LTD., a law firm specializing in intellectual property, to provide patent-related legal services across four technology categories: biotechnology, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and software. The contract, valued at up to $115 million over ten years, allows various NIH institutes and centers as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue task orders for services such as preparing and filing patent applications, providing patent counseling, and supporting the management of patent portfolios.
Task orders issued under the contract include filing provisional, national, and international patent applications; drafting Patent Cooperation Treaty applications; performing prior art searches; and prosecuting patent applications. The work is performed at the contractor's Chicago, Illinois office and is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, with no set-aside designations applied. This centralized contract vehicle enables the NIH to streamline the acquisition of specialized legal services to support its extensive biomedical research and technology transfer programs across multiple institutes.
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