McKee, Voorhees & Sease

McKee, Voorhees & Sease is a private intellectual property law firm based in Des Moines, Iowa, rather than a biotech or pharmaceutical developer. The firm focuses on patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, copyright, litigation, regulatory law, and related IP counseling for clients ranging from first-time inventors to global organizations. It has a notable biotechnology and chemical practice serving life science, pharmaceutical, medical device, agriculture, and university technology transfer clients. Founded in 1924, the firm describes itself as Iowa’s oldest and largest boutique intellectual property law firm. For biotech analysts, the firm is best understood as an external legal and strategic IP advisor to life science companies and institutions, not as a therapeutics pipeline company.