- About Us
- Our People
- About You
- Which Service?
- Spotlight On
- Knowledge Hub
- Contact Us
In today’s fast moving global marketplace, it is imperative to safeguard intellectual property to ensure enduring commercial success and recoup research and development costs. Our team of IP specialists can advise about patent, trade mark and registered design protection, as well as any IP-related legal and commercial requirements. All businesses are operating at one or more stages of what we call the IP Lifecycle. The stage you are at usually depends on the maturity of your business and your level of experience and sophistication around intellectual property rights. Mewburn Ellis can be counted on to be one step ahead, looking at how IP can benefit your business both now and in the future.
At Mewburn Ellis we are renowned for our IP expertise and technical ability, our focus is on strategic advice to maximise the potential of your IP as an asset and so increase the value of your business. Our IP specialists cover all sectors and technical fields and work closely with each other, meaning we can adapt and build multidisciplinary teams structured to meet on your specific needs, operating in a way that works for your business. We’re flexible – we can even cover periods of absence, or place a member of our team on secondment with you if needed.
We’re known for providing clear, concise and to the point IP advice. We won’t crush new ideas at early stages, but from the outset we’ll be clear on what will and won’t work from an IP perspective. Our attorneys work at all stages of the IP life cycle and can manage IP in any jurisdiction. We have a clear understanding of local practice requirements worldwide and work hand in hand with trusted local attorney firms around the world.
We can advise on portfolio management, helping you to integrate your IP into your business plan and to ensure that it's fully aligned to your strategy. We also offer audits of your existing IP portfolio to help you identify what IP you currently have, providing strategic advice and guidance along the way.
Whatever your location, size, sector or business needs, we have someone that understands your business and your technology and can work with you to provide the IP Protection that you need.
Our pharma Extensions and Exclusivity specialists have broad experience with Patent Term Extensions (including SPCs) and the Regulatory Exclusivity provisions relating to pharma products. They regularly support large and small clients with their extensions strategies and filings.
Your European Patent (EP) does not automatically deliver Europe-wide protection on grant. Your EP will need to be validated in one or more of the member states of the European Patent Convention. Validation is something our highly efficient and experienced in-house validation team can manage for you.
Our in-house renewal team has over 30 years’ experience in paying renewal fees at the EPO, UKIPO, USPTO and other foreign intellectual property offices. Where possible we pay fees directly to the patent office concerned enabling us to offer an efficient and low cost service.
The reality of IP ownership is the possibility of disputes, whether that be a person infringing your IP, or defending your business against allegations. We seek to deal holistically with IP disputes, which can involve a range of different options and strategies to maximise your outcomes.
We have an excellent track record handling offensive and defensive patent and trade mark oppositions, appeals and cancellations both in the UK and Europe. We have advised hundreds of clients on their opposition and appeals strategies and have a deep understanding of this area.
Partner, Solicitor, Litigator
Head of Legal
Partner, Patent Attorney
Head of Life Sciences
Partner, Patent Attorney
Head of Engineering & ICT
Partner, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
Head of Trade Marks
Partner, Patent Attorney
Head of Chemistry
Whether you are aiming for an exit strategy through investment or acquisition, or to grow and further establish your business, IP can play a key role. Perhaps you have some experience of IP but are you unsure if you're making the most of it? Perhaps you have no experience of IP and would like to understand how you could use it to your advantage?
A trade mark is something (e.g. a word or sign) which enables customers to identify goods or services as coming from a particular source, even though they may not know the source’s identity. Registered trade marks give powerful rights to their proprietors and are very important and valuable assets.
In the context of IP, the “design” of a product is generally its shape or ornamentation applied to it, although the exact definition varies between different types of protection. Essentially, the design of a product relates to its appearance, rather than to technical principles of its construction or operation.
Mewburn Ellis Forward is a biannual publication that celebrates the best of innovation and exploration. Through its pages we hope to inform and entertain, but also to encourage discussion about the most compelling developments taking place in the scientific and entrepreneurial world. Along the way, we’ll engage with the IP challenges that international organisations face every day.
Sign up to Forward: news, insights and features from Mewburn Ellis
Copyright © 2023 Mewburn Ellis. All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions & Online Privacy