United Kingdom (England)

Firm overview

We believe great businesses can make a better world. Forward-thinking, innovative organizations can find the answers to today’s most difficult questions. That’s why, every day, we help them succeed.

Our bold and dynamic culture means we think big and act decisively. Because relationships are at the heart of everything we do for our clients and communities.

Let’s make business better. Together.

We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients, develop our people, and serve our communities.

Bold
We are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions

Exceptional
We are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Supportive
We are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully

Collaborative
We are proactive, passionate team players, investing in our relationships

Firm overview

The award winning Intellectual Property Department at Walker Morris is a full-service IP practice. The team provides complete support across the full scope of intellectual property rights. We also advise on a broad range of issues ranging from complex disputes, global IP portfolio management to IP transactions.

The team has in depth experience in sectors such as food and drink, retail and leisure, manufacturing, sport, health and beauty, life sciences and financial services. We use this experience to support our clients with their individual needs. We adopt a collaborative approach to the way we work with our clients and get to understand our client's, their business and sector to ensure we provide the best possible advice. We put our clients at the centre of what we do and seek to build partnerships with our clients, and we endeavour to build strong and long-lasting relationships. We are proud of the many enduing relationships we have.

We apply our specialist knowledge to support clients across a wide range of IP issues and scenarios. In relation to our contentious work, we act for clients in IP disputes concerning, patents, trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs, domain disputes and confidential information. Regarding our non-contentious work, we regularly support clients with the capture and commercialisation of intellectual property including licensing, IP acquisitions and research and development agreements. We also provide day to day advice to businesses advising them on best practice for the protection and treatment of the IP in their business. Additionally, we support an array of clients with the management of their intellectual property portfolios. We provide strategic advice and assist with planning and budgeting for their portfolios. We also provide brand evaluation, trade mark clearance and filing, representation relating to contentious trade mark and design matters.

Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.

Firm overview

Stobbs advises and acts for clients across the whole life cycle of its IP, working closely with a wide variety of IP-intensive companies, spanning various industries, from brand strategy and development of filing programmes to protection and exploitation of those rights. Work includes IP commercial, dispute resolution (both pre-action and formal litigation), brand strategy, advisory, anti-counterfeiting, online brand enforcement, and portfolio management.