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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.

2nd Nov 2022

Intervening in EPO opposition proceedings

The deadline of 9-months from grant for opposing a European patent is one of the few absolute deadlines set by the European Patent Office but it does not represent the last chance to get involved in EP opposition proceedings.  Even if you have missed this 9-month term there is still, under very specific circumstances, the opportunity to “intervene” in pending opposition (or opposition-appeal) proceedings. 

13th Oct 2022

Petitions for Review – delaying the inevitable?

A petition for review is a way to challenge the final decision of the Technical Board of Appeal (“the TBA”) of the EPO. Since December 2007, when petitions for review were first made an available recourse, only 9 of 191 petitions succeeded – that is, resulted in the decision under review being set aside – putting the overall hit-rate at 4.7%. Clearly, the petitioner is rarely triumphant.

23rd Sep 2022

Top up searches beginning at the EPO ahead of the UPC

A European patent application can be granted by the EPO even if there are “earlier national rights” filed before the patent application in one or more designated states, provided those earlier national rights were published after the priority date of the European patent application. Nevertheless, after grant, these national rights can be used to challenge the validity of national validations of the European patent in those states. These national rights do not affect the validity of the patents in the other states where such earlier national rights do not exist. However, since a Unitary Patent will be a single right covering multiple states, if there is an earlier national right in any one of the participating states that would invalidate the patent, this national right would invalidate the unitary patent. Therefore, the protection would be lost across all of the states covered by the unitary patent.

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