Mishcon de Reya

With more than 50 fee earners, Mishcon has one of the largest independent IP practices in the UK. Sitting at the heart of the Innovation Department, our IP team works with the owners of some of the world’s best-known rights to create value by protecting, enforcing, and exploiting their valuable IP.

Cementing our prominence in the IP legal market, our IP team is ranked Tier 1 in Legal 500 and has Gold Tier status in World Trademark Review 1000. In recent years, we have won a number of major industry awards

Our IP group offers a complete range of IP-related services, including: strategic IP advice; trade mark, patent and design clearance and portfolio management; handling IP infringements swiftly and tenaciously; and IP commercial transactions such as franchising and licensing, with the experience and know-how to take on the role of strategic advisor in pursuit of key business objectives.

Our clients range from small start-ups seeking to disrupt existing categories or occupy a completely new space, to global operations looking to exploit emerging opportunities or fundamentally transform entire parts of their business. Our clients operate from a wide-range of sectors, from Retail and Technology to Life Sciences. Each of our sector groups is comprised of lawyers who have deep expertise in these areas, and highlights the breadth of experience amongst our team.

Key IP Areas

Copyright & related rights, Designs, Intellectual property (contentious), Intellectual property (prosecution), IP transactions, Life sciences IP, Patent, Patent (contentious), Patent (prosecution), Trade mark, Trade mark (contentious), Trade mark (prosecution)

Key Sector Expertise

Advertising, Artificial intelligence, Arts, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical, Computer technology & services, E-commerce, Electrical, Electronics, Fashion & luxury goods, Financial services, FMCG, Food and beverage, Gaming, Hospitality & leisure, ICT & software, Industrials, Internet, Life sciences, Logistics, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Media, Medical device, Pharmaceutical, Professional services, Real estate, Sports, Technology hardware, Telecommunication, Transport, Universities & research

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement and strategy focusses on improving equity, diversity and inclusion within the firm through policies, methods of recruiting, developing, promoting and recognising our people that levels up opportunity so that we can ultimately achieve equality.

Everyone at Mishcon is encouraged to play an active role in achieving our EDI strategy, whether that is through our daily interactions, attending awareness training or being actively involved in the various inclusion networks.

We set our EDI strategy on a three-year basis and are currently at the point of reviewing our previous strategy and identifying our goals for the next three years. As part of this review, we will update how we communicate our strategy both internally and externally, through our EDI targets, biannual progress reports and online communication platforms.

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