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Protecting, defending and maximising the value of inventions

People who know your world and speak your language

Securing patent rights and making them work commercially is complicated. We help innovators protect, defend, and maximise the value of their inventions. In any sector, in any country, regardless of the size of your business, we’ll make your IP work harder for your budget. No other IP firm has the in-house capability of Marks & Clerk across sectors and borders.

Specialist advice, quality assured processes

Marks & Clerk is widely recognised as the leader for patent advice internationally. We put time and thought into finding exactly the right people for your business. People who know your world and speak your language. Whatever the science or technology, whatever the sector or product, however complex the work, we’ll find people with exactly the right expertise to meet your needs.

We use our specialist expertise and quality-assured processes to devise tailored IP strategies while taking care of the administration of patent applications and portfolios.

Specialists

for the result you need

Simon Mounteney

Managing Partner, Europe Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Simon has over 30 years’ experience working in intellectual property. As a Partner and Patent Attorney, he works with a wide variety of traditional and cutting-edge technologies.
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James Kinnaird

Partner Registered (SG), Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney
James Kinnaird is a Singapore Registered Patent Attorney, Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney.
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Chris Hemingway

Director, Office Managing Partner Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney, Registered (MY) Patent, Trademark and Industrial Design Agent
Chris specialises in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications, and is one of only a few practitioners in the country who is also qualified as a UK and European patent attorney.
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Luca Polverari

Partner Luxembourg Managing Partner, Conseil en Propriété Industrielle (Lux)
Luca is managing partner of our Luxembourg office, with overall responsibility for the office's validations procedure.

Daniel Talbot-Ponsonby

Partner Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Daniel is a Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney and is managing partner of the Oxford office. He has considerable experience in the drafting, prosecution and opposition of UK, European and international patent applications, and in infringement and validity matters.

Mike Gilbert

Partner Solicitor (UK)
Mike is an intellectual property lawyer who advises clients in a wide variety of business sectors on issues including intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution, IP strategy and risk limitation, due diligence projects and commercial and licensing transactions involving intellectual property. He works closely with the firm’s patent attorneys to develop comprehensive strategies for parallel disputes.

Amrita V. Singh

Partner | Co-chair of Litigation and Dispute Resolution Barrister and Solicitor
Amrita is a partner at Marks & Clerk and Co-chair of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group in Canada, with significant expertise in intellectual property litigation.

Patent services

Identifying

We help you identify valuable IP assets by tailoring clear IP capture protocols for you to use in your business.

Protecting

Getting the right protection in the right markets, aligned with your business plan and budget, is central to our approach. We make sure you’re briefed and in control so that you can decide how best to invest in your IP protection. We will:

  • advise on whether a new invention can be patented
  • provide novelty and infringement searches
  • draft patents and manage applications through to grant.

Defending

There are lots of different ways to defend your patents, including low-cost and no-cost strategies. We can:

  • advise on issues such as amendment, validity and infringement
  • consider designing around third party rights to avoid infringement
  • bring and defend actions relating to the infringement and revocation of patents
  • contest inventorship or the entitlement to grant
  • help you police your patent rights to ensure that they are not infringed.

When going through the courts is unavoidable, we’ll bring in one of our IP litigators. This specialist team works with individuals and multinational corporations, handling cases from the simple to the super-complex.

Managing

We take care of all the reminders, deadlines and renewals involved in securing patents and managing them. Our systems are ISO 9001 quality-assured so you can be confident about leaving the admin with us. We can:

  • advise on the best protection strategy for an invention and then manage its implementation worldwide according to your budget
  • help design internal systems for the most efficient and effective management of the IP arising from your innovation processes
  • provide internal training programmes to ensure that you are getting the maximum IP return from your R&D investment.

Maximising value

Patents are not just for defending marketing share and competitive advantage. They can generate revenue and raise the value of your business. We can:

  • review your existing portfolio of rights and offer advice on its strengths and weaknesses
  • review competitor and sector activity worldwide and help you plan your IP strategy accordingly
  • advise on the many different ways of leveraging your IP rights, including licensing
  • assist with the transfer of your rights or the acquisition of third-party rights.

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