We help you obtain, protect and exploit your intellectual property.

We're a leading intellectual property firm, specialising in British, European and international patent, trade mark, design and copyright law, from strategy and protection through to litigation and dispute resolution. We're a top-tier UK firm in The Legal 500; ‘recommended’ in the IAM Patent 2020 rankings; and one of the Financial Times’ 2020 Leading European Patent Law Firms.

Our firm

Globally, we’ve filed more than:

140,000

patents

74,000

trade marks

10,000

registered designs

  • Our services

    We advise clients on all aspects of British, European and international patent, trade mark, design and copyright law.

  • Patents

    Our attorneys have filed more than 140,000 patents

  • Trade marks

    Our attorneys have filed more than 74,000 trademarks.

  • Designs

    We've filed more than 10,000 registered design applications.

  • Copyright

    Our copyright attorneys can help you protect your creative activities.

Our Clients

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Automotive, engineering and industry

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Secure Micro

Navigating computer-implemented invention patents

Our automotive and software knowledge, and experience in computer-implemented inventions, enabled us to secure patents for an innovative start-up.

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Consumer & brands

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END.

Putting an END to domain name infringement

We found a smart, low-cost, alternative way to deal with trade mark infringement for a world-famous clothing retailer.

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Chemistry & materials technologies

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Colour Tone Masterbatch Ltd

A masterstroke in plastic recycling

We secured global patent protection for a new black colourant for plastics which will enable more to be recycled using infrared sorting technology.

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Navigating computer-implemented invention patents

Putting an END to domain name infringement

A masterstroke in plastic recycling

Our people

Dr Alan Jones

Partner - Cardiff

029 2064 2150

Sharon Kirby

Senior Trade Mark Attorney - Leeds

0113 245 2388

Simon Raynor

Partner - Milton Keynes

01908 666645

Our people

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03-09-2020

Supreme Court points the way for licensing telecoms patents in the automotive sector — our top tips to license SEPs

We break down the important decision in Unwired Planet vs Huawei and Conversant v Huawei and ZTE.

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IP tips

01-07-2020

Protecting food and drink brands: CITMA initiative features UDL and client Boost Drinks

Find out how we've helped to protect the Boost Drinks brand since its inception in this video.

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