Our services:
- Drafting patent specifications
- Invention review and pre-filing advice
- Filing patent applications in the UK, Europe and internationally
- Navigating the patent application process through to acceptance
- Patent term extensions
- Providing patentability and product freedom to operate searches and opinions
- IP audits and invention harvesting
- Patent due diligence and advising on patents related to transactions
- Patent watches and monitoring competitor’s patent portfolios
- Monitoring and maintaining a patent portfolio with strategic review and advice
- Defending patents from third party challenges, including opposition and revocation proceedings
- Infringement opinions and advice on enforcing patent rights
- Patent litigation — enforcement and defence
- Advising on commercial agreements including assignments, licences, securities and co-ownerships
- Licensing
- Restoration of patents
- IP awareness and staff training
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Why you should patent an invention
A patent is a valuable business asset and an important commercial tool, and can be used in many different ways.
How to get a patent
In order to be awarded a patent, an invention must be ‘novel’ and ‘inventive’ at the date it is filed.
The patent procedure
The procedure for obtaining a patent in the UK can be broadly divided into five main stages: filing, search, publication, examination and grant.
Filing patents internationally
You must file separate patent applications in each country where protection is required. There are options for making the process of obtaining multiple international patents more straightforward, efficient and cost effective.
Patent infringement
Any person will also infringe your patent if they sell, offer for sale, import, export or use any product or process that falls within the scope of your patent.
Patent box — tax relief
It’s possible to pay a lower rate of corporation tax through the UK Government’s Patent Box scheme.
Case studies
Case Study
Anonymous medical client
Taking a scalpel to a European patent
We identified a fatal flaw and entirely revoked a competitor’s patent on the rare basis of insufficiency.
Case Study
Floreon
A solution to the world’s packaging problem?
Plastic pollution is a major problem. Floreon might just have the solution. We secured European protection for its innovative degradable plastics.
Case Study
SIG
Safer, more efficient external cladding
Our technical knowledge of the science behind the invention helped us to secure patent protection for SIG’s cladding.
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