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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.

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

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.

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

Get a guide to the Unified Patent Court

Visit our Unified Patent Court (UPC) & Unitary Patent hub for an easy to follow guide.

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Key contacts

Jian Xu

Jian Xu

Managing Director

Head of IP Prosecution, China; IP Attorney, Patent and Trademark Attorney

Beijing
Huw Evans

Huw Evans

Partner

Head of Patent Litigation (UK)

London
Christopher Bown

Christopher D. Bown, PhD

Partner

Patent Agent; National Practice Group Leader - Patents

Ottawa
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