Services

Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.

For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.

Sectors

Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.

Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.

They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.

Computers & Software


Patent law places a number of hurdles in the path of inventors seeking protection for computer-related inventions or inventions implemented in software.

In the UK and Europe, patent law excludes the grant of patents for computer programs that do not provide a technical effect. Other countries frequently apply similar restrictions.

Creative thinking is often required to write patent claims, which provide protection for what are often abstract developments in computer control or processing.


Our clients

Our clients include: a major financial services company; a web technology developer for monitoring marketing campaigns; a leading manufacturer of computers and peripherals; and a developer of set-top box technology.

We have assisted an information management software organisation in the development of an international portfolio in six software friendly jurisdictions. We successfully represented the client at oral proceedings at the European Patent Office and overcame the examining division’s objections that the software was not technical.

We advise a multinational Japanese provider of IT services and products on the development of its European patent portfolio relating to computer networks and encryption systems.

Our experience

We work closely with many software companies around the world helping them overcome these hurdles. Sometimes the constraints of the patent system require us to identify and seek protection for the core of a much a larger system. At other times, we may have to consider the interactions between an inventive system and the other entities at its periphery, and seek protection for those interactions. The choice of claim wording and the choice of jurisdiction can make all the difference to the outcome.

We are experts in this rapidly developing field, writing papers and giving seminars on the latest legal developments, and we seek advice from our extensive network of overseas contacts to obtain the latest understanding of the developments in patent law in other countries. We will advise clients of the most favorable jurisdictions suited to their needs and market, even if this is not their home jurisdiction.

Computers & Software
14th Feb 2024
What Next for Patenting Software Implemented Artificial Neural Network Inventions in the UK?

A recent Judgment, Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] EWHC 2948, in relation to an appeal against a decision of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has paved the way for the UKIPO to (at least temporarily) adjust its approach to dealing with patent applications that relate […]

Computers & Software
24th Nov 2023
Lessons in Success through IP Strategy: a Look at ARM Plc

The UK is a global leader in semiconductor chip design, packaging and intellectual property. This expertise positions the country in a critical role to play in shaping the future of semiconductor technology. The announcement of the National Semiconductor Strategy in May of this year came as a positive to see that the UK Government is […]

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