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Technologies | Food Science

We’ve grown with the food science ecosystem—from novel ingredients to intelligent packaging—and bring that science-first perspective to every matter.

Food and beverage innovators face tight timelines, strict safety standards, complex labeling rules, and global supply chains. Our team helps turn R&D progress into protected, market-ready products with IP strategies built for speed, compliance, and scale.

Advancing Food Systems Through Innovation

Food science integrates chemistry, biology, engineering, and data science to improve how food is formulated, processed, packaged, and delivered. Whether you’re enhancing nutrition, extending shelf life, or scaling sustainable production, we align IP strategy with R&D and commercialization goals.

Protecting Innovation Across Food Science

Our Food Science practice spans the full spectrum of technologies shaping the way we eat. We work with universities, startups, and established companies to safeguard advances in formulation and ingredients, including functional additives, clean-label replacements, and systems that reduce sugar, sodium, or fat. We also protect innovations in functional foods and nutrition, from fortification strategies to and bioavailability enhancements, ensuring that clinical substantiation plans align with claim strategies.

Our Approach

We meet scientists where they are—translating lab data into strong patent claims, trade secret programs, and defensible brands. Our approach is pragmatic, science-driven, and tailored to the realities of food innovation.

Key elements include:

  • Front-loaded Strategy: Invention mining, landscape analyses, and freedom-to-operate reviews that guide R&D investment and direction.
  • Right-sized Protection: Patents for true differentiators, trade secrets for critical process know-how, and trademarks for building brand equity.
  • Global Coordination: PCT and foreign filings managed with trusted associates to balance cost, timing, and geographic coverage.
  • Diligence-ready Materials: Data rooms, ownership documentation, and IP strategies designed to accelerate partnerships, licensing opportunities, and fundraising rounds.

Who We Serve

Our Food Science practice is built in partnership with universities, startups, and growth-stage companies. Many of the technologies we protect originate in academic labs and scale through licensing or joint ventures. We work closely with technology transfer offices, incubators, and corporate R&D teams to guide discoveries from bench to pilot to commercial launch.

We support clients across:

  • Academic Institutions: Helping technology transfer offices and research teams secure and commercialize discoveries.
  • Startups and Growth-stage Companies: Building IP portfolios that attract investors, enable partnerships, and support rapid scale-up.
  • Industry Partners: Advising consumer packaged goods companies, ingredient developers, contract manufacturers, packaging innovators.


Our breadth of experience allows us to support clients at every stage, from early research to global commercialization.

Partnering to Feed the Future

From nutrient-dense formulations to data-driven quality systems, we protect the ideas shaping how the world eats. Our Food Science and Bio Ag  practices work hand in hand, reflecting the deep connections between agriculture and food technology. 
 

Our commitment includes:

  • Sustainability: Supporting innovations that make global food systems more resilient and environmentally responsible.
  • Security: Safeguarding critical technologies that ensure safe, reliable, and transparent supply chains.
  • Growth: Helping innovators move from lab to market with durable, defensible IP strategies.


Together, they demonstrate our commitment to supporting innovations that feed the world—sustainably and securely. Let’s turn your research into durable, defensible advantage.

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