Our Services
We can provide you with full services in respect of patents, trade marks, unregistered design rights, registered designs and copyright. We can protect, maintain, defend and enforce your IP rights in the UK, Europe and across the world; we can search for, monitor and attack competitor IP rights on your behalf; we can assist you with IP disputes; and, we can perform IP audits and due diligence audits for you.
PATENTS
Our patent services include:-
- Invention harvesting
- Patentability advice and searches
- Drafting patent specifications
- Filing strategies
- Filing and prosecuting patent applications to grant in the UK, Europe (European Patent Office) and around the world
- Maintaining your patent filings by payment of maintenance fees
- Defending your patents from attack
- Enforcing your patents against a potential infringer
- Oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office
- Advising on potential infringement and validity of 3rd party patent filings
- Searching, monitoring and attacking 3rd party patent filings
- Agreements (e.g. non-disclosure agreements, licences, assignments)
TRADE MARKS
Our trade mark services include:-
- Registrability advice and searches
- Filing strategies
- Filing and prosecuting trade mark applications to registration in the UK, European Community (OHIM) and around the world
- Maintaining your trade marks by payment of maintenance fees
- Defending your trade marks from attack
- Enforcing your trade marks against a potential infringer
- Oppositions and appeals
- Advising on potential infringement and validity of 3rd party trade marks
- Freedom to operate searches, advice and strategies
- Searching, monitoring and attacking 3rd party trade marks
REGISTERED DESIGNS AND UNREGISTERED DESIGNS
Our design services include:-
- Preparation of representations of the design
- Advice on ownership and commissioning
- Filing and prosecuting registered design applications to registration in the UK, European Community (OHIM) and around the world
- Maintaining your registered designs by payment of maintenance fees
- Advice on the scope of 3rd party registered designs
COPYRIGHT
Our copyright services include:-
- Establishing a date of creation
- Advice on ownership and commissioning
- Infringement advice