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Intellectual Property

Apr. 6, 2011

Gerard von Hoffmann

Portfolio Manager / Patent Prosecutor Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP Irvine Medical devices


Gerard von Hoffmann


Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP


Irvine


Medical devices


Von Hoffmann's background is in chemistry, but he found patent work more interesting in the medical device industry than in the pharmaceutical field.


It takes less time to invent, develop and win regulatory approval for a new bone screw, for example, than it does for a new drug. That means there are a lot of repeat entrepreneurs...

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