About Us

The partners of the firm all hold engineering or other scientific qualifications of degree standard across a broad range of disciplines. They come from a variety of backgrounds in industry, in the Patent Office and in private practice and so provide the firm with wide technical and commercial experience. Technical specialisations within the firm include electrical and electronic engineering, laser technology, mechanical engineering, automobile engineering, computer hardware and software, physics, chemistry, plastics technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and textiles.

The firm has a substantial trade mark group. Members of the group hold committee positions in the International Trade Mark Association. The group are also contributors to Sweet & Maxwell's European Trade Mark Litigation Handbook.

Members of the firm belong to the European Patent Institute, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and hold the professional qualifications of these Institutes. The firm also belongs to the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, the International Trade Mark Association and the Licensing Executive Society. Members of the firm belong to Marques (The European Brand Owners Association), and other IP organisations such as FICPI and AIPPI.

The clientele of the firm is worldwide and spread fairly evenly among multi-national companies, large, medium and small firms and individual inventors.

The firm places great emphasis on the quality and cost effectiveness of the services it offers, as well as the friendly and helpful manner in which those services are delivered.