How I can help your business

• Advise on registered and unregistered design rights, including developing effective industrial design filing strategies.
• Draft and prosecute patent applications, and coordinate multi jurisdictional prosecution programmes.
• Provide guidance on complex, multi jurisdictional freedom to operate matters, including coordinating infringement and validity assessments.

Overview & Expertise

Amy Morris is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney based in the Manchester office. Amy’s practice focuses on mechanical technologies, with experience spanning turbomachinery, automotive systems, printing, packaging and labelling, animal healthcare, manufacturing, power tools, oil and gas, and the food and beverage sectors. Her background in general mechanical engineering supports a broad and adaptable approach across industrial technologies.

She has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications before the UK Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office, and regularly manages international prosecution strategies, including in the United States, China and India. She also has experience in opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO.

Amy has advised on complex, multi-jurisdictional FTO matters, including coordinating infringement and validity assessments and supporting strategic decision making across multiple territories. She has significant experience working closely with foreign attorneys on complex matters, ensuring that analyses across jurisdictions are aligned, jurisdiction specific nuances are properly accounted for, and that clear advice is provided on risk and mitigation strategies.

In addition, she advises on industrial designs, including UK and EU registrations and international filing strategies, helping clients align design protection with broader patent and utility model portfolios.

Client Work & Case Experience

• Global engineering sector client — supported the management and development of a patent portfolio across the UK, Europe, China and India.
• Industrial equipment sector — advised on freedom to operate in relation to product development for coding and marking technologies, including coordination of infringement and validity considerations.
• Multi sector clients — developed IP portfolios through the strategic use of industrial designs alongside broader protection strategies.