Patents

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.

We represent clients when their patent rights are infringed or when they are accused of infringing third-party patent rights. We enforce these rights in legal proceedings before the competent German and European courts.

We cover many areas of litigation and arbitration including preliminary injunctions, and all aspects of non-contentious IP including matters with regards to employee invention, utility models, trade secrets and confidential information, licensing, cooperation and other commercial agreements.