While there is a strong focus at the firm on using technology to streamline its services and provide better value, joint managing partner Stephan Eilers tells us: «Moving the firm into areas such as information services that do not generate a client relationship and which offer
an isolated legal product is not the space where we should compete.»
[1] After a protracted
legal battle between the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Patent Office against Myriad, the Supreme Court ruled that
isolated genes were a «
product of nature» and therefore not patent eligible.