The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for patent legal services to Polsinelli PC, an Am Law 100 law firm with expertise in intellectual property and patent law. The $17 million contract, which has a period of performance through April 2025, provides for firm fixed price and time and materials task orders to support patent prosecution, prior art searches, and patent application filing services for NIH's various institutes and centers, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The services cover patent legal needs across biotechnology, chemistry, medical engineering, and software technology areas. No set-aside was used for this award, which aims to protect intellectual property developed through NIH-funded research programs. Subsequent delivery orders issued to date have ranged from $12,000 to $550,000 to file provisional, PCT, and non-provisional patent applications for inventions in fields such as biotechnology, medical devices, and computer software.
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