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.
We are proud to advise some of the most sophisticated and exacting innovators in the world. Our deep industry knowledge allows us to understand your business at a different level and help you realise the full value of your IP assets.
Our full suite of patent services covers all technology areas, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, consumer products and energy. Our team complements this knowledge with previous academic attainments and earlier careers in biochemistry, physics, engineering, advertising, IT and microbiology. These backgrounds, combined with regular client secondments, ensure a greater insight into the competing priorities and parameters that our clients face every day. Current top in-house priorities cover trade secrets, Supplementary Protection Certificates, FRAND, artificial intelligence and the Unitary Patent system.
Our UK Patents team is recommended for its work in patent litigation (acting for both claimants and defendants), patent strategy and non-contentious advice.
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
