Guardians of Innovation

Our in-house experienced attorneys have worked for some of the world's most innovative engineering companies.

We offer an experienced team of UK and European Patent Attorneys and IP Litigators, many with impressive previous careers as senior IP managers in some of the world's most innovative companies. We bring a unique perspective life-long private practitioners cannot. We provide practical and commercially-focussed IP advice with first-hand knowledge of the internal challenges companies face in building an IP strategy that aligns with corporate business strategy.

We have technical expertise in a wide range of disciplines; engineering, software and AI, medtech, life sciences, physics, chemistry. We have a particularly strong aerospace and defence team who have worked for the UK's biggest defence and aerospace organisations. Our telecommunications team are vastly experienced in dealing with standard essential patents and international FRAND license negotiations.

Whether your aim is to generate investment or funding, guard your innovation to prevent competitors from using it, generate licensing income, or reduce your corporation tax bill by taking advantage of the UK's Patent Box, we can help you build a patent portfolio to best meet your needs within your budget.

We don't only advocate for patents, we'll evaluate whether your innovation might be better protected as trade secrets and advise you on the internal processes to put in place to best protect those trade secrets.

As well as protecting your innovation we can help you navigate risks of infringing other parties' IP. We provide patent landscaping services and can help advise you on designing around problem patents. Our experienced IP litigators can help you enforce or defend in patent infringement proceedings and we have an excellent track record of success both in challenging and defending European patents through opposition proceedings.

If you're thinking of collaborating on R&D we can help you protect the IP you bring and ensure you can exploit the results of the collaboration through robust IP agreements.