Joanna’s practice focuses on advising emerging and established companies and their investors on patent matters – including strategic patent prosecution and portfolio strategy, intellectual property due diligence, and IP-related disputes. Joanna has spent more than a decade working with life sciences companies, particularly in the medtech sector, and she prides herself on providing pragmatic and creative solutions for her clients that advance their IP objectives and align their IP strategy with their business strategy. Joanna collaborates closely with her clients to craft and execute comprehensive patent portfolio strategies that safeguard her clients’ innovations across the globe. In addition to her extensive knowledge of patent preparation and prosecution, Joanna has performed countless investor-side and company-side IP due diligences, as well as freedom-to-operate, patentability, invalidity, infringement and ownership analyses.