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Schell IP helps diagnostic and laboratory-product teams evaluate patent questions in test systems, sample preparation, assay workflows, instruments, and related technical improvements. We focus on the part of the platform that creates the claimed technical contribution.
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Jeff Schell's published background includes work with women's health testing company Proov. For a new project, the useful discussion starts with the specific product: how the sample moves through the system, what is measured, and how the result is produced.
A platform may involve reagents, fluid handling, sensing hardware, software, and consumables. Organizing those elements helps separate potentially distinct inventions and determine what a proposed application needs to explain.
Diagnostic patent claims require careful eligibility analysis. A relationship observed in nature and a claimed technical implementation raise different questions. Supporting data, implementation detail, and the precise claim approach all matter to the review.
Explain their interaction and any improvements in each. They may present related or separate patent questions.
No. Eligibility and the other patent requirements depend on the claimed subject matter and the disclosure supporting it.
Before publications, external demonstrations, or partner disclosures where possible, and again when the technical approach changes materially.
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Jeff Schell is a patent lawyer and entrepreneur who helps people and businesses in the diagnostics and laboratory tools industry obtain and defend patent rights for their product portfolios. He connects patent strategy with product development, commercialization, and business priorities.
Based in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, Jeff is the founder of Schell IP, which is part of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP.
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