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.

Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare


Our medical devices and digital healthcare team offers the strong cross-disciplinary skills necessary to support clients in this unique sector.

 

Medical devices are typically high-technology, high-value, products. Even apparently simple devices such as stents are likely to be formed from high cost, advanced materials that must go through strict regulatory processes before being approved for use.  These technical challenges make intellectual property rights essential in supporting the considerable investment necessary to bring these life changing products to patients and healthcare practitioners.

Digital healthcare is transforming the pharmaceutical sector.  Artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and digital platforms are already essential to everything from drug discovery to personalised medicines.  With an understanding of both the heavily regulated pharmaceutical sector and the fast moving tech sector our team can support healthcare companies in deciding how and why they should protect and utilise their intellectual property.

Our multi-disciplinary team has a wealth of experience in handling the IP challenges of the medical device and digital healthcare sectors.  Working at the intersection of different technologies, regulations and patent law, we support multi-nationals to manage and defend their IP portfolio as well as helping smaller companies navigate the IP landscape and protect their innovations.


Our clients

Our clients include:

  • a UK orthotics manufacturer;
  • a developer of vials, pre-filled syringes and auto-injectors;
  • a worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies for the health care industry;
  • a global leader in surgical equipment for neurosurgery and gynaecology;
  • UK based unicorns developing neural network technologies and AI for use in drug discovery and development;
  • a US based digital diagnostics company; and
  • a UK start-up using AI to identify anomalies in radiograms.

Our experience

We advise on global protection strategies, taking into account the different approaches taken by patent offices around the world.  From the patentability of software inventions to inventions relating to the treatment of diseases, the respective national laws can differ considerably.  Our team understands these complexities and will adjust their strategy to achieve the maximum protection for clients in the desired territories.

Medical devices and digital healthcare are potentially “game changing” technologies existing at the intersection of a number of scientific disciplines. As a consequence, our patent attorneys engaged in this sector have an understanding of multiple disciplines including biology, chemistry, material science, engineering, software and electronics.

The investment required to produce a successful medical device product means that companies defend their rights vigorously and several high profile patent trials in recent years have involved medical devices. To help identify IP risks at an early stage our team is experienced in preparing focussed freedom to operate searches and providing opinions based on both the legal and commercial threat of third party IP.

In digital healthcare, the critical role of IP is a relatively new phenomenon but our team has been supporting clients in this sector from the beginning.  We understand the challenges facing the life science sector as it transitions into digital medicine and combine it with decades of experience supporting some of the world’s largest tech companies with their IP strategies.

Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare
18th Mar 2024
Trends in patents and innovation against cancer

“With an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020, cancer is a major global health threat”. This, quoted in the European Patent Office (EPO) “Patents and innovation against cancer” report of February 2024, highlights the scale of the challenge to researchers in the fight against this devastating disease. […]

Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare
18th Oct 2023
World Menopause Day 2023: A brief overview of innovation within the menopause space

Today (18th October 2023) is World Menopause Day. According to the NHS, this day is needed to: “raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support available for improving health and wellbeing for those experiencing menopause.” Currently in the U.K. there are an estimated 13 million peri or post-menopausal women, with 77%[1] finding at least […]

Medical Devices & Digital Healthcare
23rd Aug 2023
The future of glucose monitoring

The non-invasive glucose monitoring device market is anticipated to progress substantially over the coming years. Industry expansion is likely to be propelled by the ever increasing prevalence of diabetes in modern society. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), around 540 million adults (20-79 years) have diabetes, with almost half unaware that they have the […]

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