Our Firm

McNeill Baur PLLC is an intellectual property law firm focusing on providing brand-name quality patent prosecution and counseling services to clients in the life science industries for reasonable costs. Our services include:

• Patent prosecution—drafting and prosecuting United States patent applications and coordinating worldwide patent prosecution;
• Patent appeals—appealing final rejections to the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), as well as to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC);
• USPTO proceedings—representing our clients’ interests in proceedings at the USPTO, including inter partes review (IPR), post grant review (PGR), reexaminations, reissues, interferences, and derivation proceedings;
• Patent opinions—providing patentability, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity opinions to help guide our clients’ patent and business strategies;
• Intellectual property portfolio management—evaluating your intellectual property portfolio and recommending strategies to cover your most important products and defer competition; and
• Due diligence investigations—analyze intellectual property portfolios and licensing activities to prepare clients for business transactions.

McNeill Baur was founded by Rebecca McNeill and Amelia Feulner Baur. With in-house and brand-name large law firm experience, our attorneys bring the personalized service and flexibility you would expect from a small firm with the skills and experience they delivered at leading intellectual property firms.