• Aeronautical engineering
• Aerospace engineering
• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Biotechnology
• Chemical
• Cleantech
• Construction
• Defence
• Electronics
• Food

• IT/Software
• Materials
• Manufacturing
• Mechanical/Engineering
• Medical devices
• Nanotechnology
• Oil & Gas
• Optical technologies
• Pharmaceutical
• Semiconductors
• Telecommunications

• review your existing portfolio of rights and offer advice on its strengths and weaknesses

• help to 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

• review competitor and sector activity worldwide and help you plan your branding strategy accordingly

• advise on the best protection strategy for an invention and then manage its implementation worldwide

• advise on the many different ways of leveraging your IP rights, including using the Patent Box

• help you ensure you get the maximum return on the IP in your invention for as long as possible.

advise on whether a new invention can be patented

provide novelty and infringement searches

draft and prosecute patent applications through to grant

advise on requests for supplementary protection certificates

• advise on issues such as amendment, validity, infringement of clients' and third party patents

• consider the possibility of designing around third party rights to avoid infringement

• advise on compulsory licence applications

• bring and defend actions for the revocation of patents

• bring and defend actions relating to the infringement of patents

• oppose the grant of patents before relevant patent offices

• contest inventorship or the entitlement to grant

• help you police your patent rights to ensure that they are not infringed

• assist with the transfer of your rights or the acquisition of third party rights