Overview
Rapid advances in new technologies have led to a host of unique and unprecedented challenges when protecting your innovations. To stake a claim and mitigate long-term risk, you need a highly-skilled team of patent lawyers with extensive experience and an established track record of successfully protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights worldwide.
Our full-service law firm is home to international patent professionals with expert-level strength in prosecution, enforcement, litigation and transactional work across global sectors. We serve a range of clients from startup innovators, universities and research institutes to multi-national corporations. From our offices in Canada, China, Europe and the UK, the Middle East and Singapore our patent team works to protect, commercialise and enforce patents and industrial designs in a wide range of areas, as well as maximise your patent strategy across the globe. With one of the largest patent drafting and prosecution practices, we also provide direct patent filing in Canada, China, Singapore & UAE and manage large global patent portfolios for many of our clients. In UK and Europe we work with an established and extensive network of experienced attorney firms to provide filing services for both national and European patents as well Unitary Patents.
With many of our professionals holding advanced scientific, medical and engineering degrees, we have an unrivalled reputation for unique industry insight. We provide tailored solutions across a spectrum of technologies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, consumer products and energy.
Research and development is one of the fastest areas of commercial growth in the Middle East and the North Africa (MENA) region. As governments look to move towards innovation driven knowledge-based economies, protecting patents and innovation in the MENA region is crucial in order to obtain and maintain your commercial advantage.
Our UAE IP team can help you to confidently stake a claim and mitigate long-term risk, handling patent matters throughout the MENA region, including work before the GCC Patent Office (GCCPO).
Our professionals can help to successfully file, prosecute and enforce your patents and industrial designs. They can also assist you to establish technology transfer processes to commercialise your patents and innovations to see an impact from your investments in research and development.
Our team works closely with our award-winning group of patent professionals in Canada, China and Singapore for patent drafting. With the support of our international Patent team, we cover all technical areas of potential interest.
Patent services
- ADR, arbitration & mediation
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Competition law issues
- Drafting & filing patent and industrial design applications
- Employee inventions
- Market clearance / Freedom to operate opinions
- Open source issues
- Patent audits
- Patent enforcement and litigation
- Patent licensing
- Patent mining & mapping
- Patent portfolio management
- Patent prosecution strategies
- Plant Variety Rights protection
- Standard essential patents & FRAND
- Technology transfer consultancy
- Trade secrets & confidential information
- Transactional due diligence
- Unitary Patent System
- Utility models
