About Us

Our Patents group is one of the largest and best known in Europe. Highly experienced in both contentious and non contentious patent matters, we help our clients, based in Europe and internationally, exploit, protect, manage and defend their IP rights.

We serve knowledge-based and technology-rich businesses operating across a variety of industry sectors including Technology, Biotech & Life Science,  Manufacturing and the Automotive sector.

A growing trend in patent litigation cases is parallel actions in multiple jurisdictions. Organisations caught up in such complex cases know the issues they face have huge commercial significance.

The group has built up an extensive expertise in the management and coordination of international litigation. Our familiarity with the patent litigation regimes in the key European jurisdictions as well as our good understanding of the patent litigation systems in countries like USA, Japan and China enables us to devise and adapt the best strategies for our clients Europe-wide.

Our transactional lawyers have an excellent reputation for patent licensing and the establishment of R&D collaborations and joint ventures in relation to a range of patented technologies as well as resolving contractual disputes involving such commercial relationships. In addition, we frequently cooperate with seasoned, external patent attorneys which are pertinently experienced in regard to the conduct of cases on technology matters.

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property Patent Litigation Patent strategy & international coordination Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedures Freedom to operate opinions Employee inventions Licensing & cooperation agreements Research & development (R&D) agreements Regulatory advice Know-how transfer & licensing Trade secrets Anti-counterfeiting & customs Unified Patent Court (UPC) strategy

Awards

• Firm of the Year, Managing Intellectual Property 2019
• Awarded 5 stars in the category “Patent Litigation”, JUVE – Patent Litigation, 2018/2019