NIH Awards Patent Legal Support Contracts

The Office of Technology Transfer, NIH, has awarded patent legal support contracts, each with a five-year term. Forty-nine firms submitted bids. Information from a Feb. 3,1997 message posted by Gregory Aharonian to the patent-l Internet newsgroup.


                                                     FIVE YEAR CONTRACT FEE
                                                       FOR PATENT SERVICES

Klarquist Sparkman Campbell Leigh & Whinston                $1,580,000
One World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon Street, 16th. Floor
Portland, OR 97204-2988

Fitch, Evan, Tabin & Flannery                               $1,556,750
135 South LaSalle Street, Suite 900
Chicago, IL 60603-4277

Leydig, Voit & Meyer                                        $1,877,500
Two President Plaza, Suite 4900
Chicago, IL 60601-6780

Merchant & Gould                                            $1,985,500
3100 Northwest Center
90 South 7th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402-4131

Townsend and Townsend and Crew                              $1,983,000
Two Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111

Fish and Ricardson                                          $1,895,000
Suite 1400, 4225 Executive Square
La Jolla, CA 92037

Medlen & Caroll                                             $1,872,300
220 Montgomery Street, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94104

Spencer & Frank                                             $1,509,250
Suite 300 East
1100 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005-3955

Needle, Rosenberg                                           $1,982,000
Suite 1200
127 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-1811

Morgan & Finnegan                                           $2,242,600
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154-0053