United Kingdom (Scotland)

Firm overview

Murgitroyd is a rapidly growing firm with innovation at its heart.

For nearly 50 years we’ve built a reputation as one of the world’s leading strategic IP firms. Trusted by global innovators and businesses to realise and protect the true value of their intellectual assets. History we may have, but we instead face forward. Our success lies in the positive relationships we build and our unrivalled breadth of expertise – from an unmatched technical knowledge to a proven commercial awareness.

We’re more than legal experts – we’re a strategic IP solutions firm with an unrivalled breadth of expertise. Our UK and European patent, trade mark and design attorneys bring together solid legal foundations, unmatched technical knowledge, and a commercial awareness that can drive growth and accelerate success.

We build relationships – globally. Our job is to protect and unlock the full potential of your innovations and ideas – not just in your country, but around the world. Our global team of specialists have an unrivalled knowledge in local laws and practices that provide a benchmark for advice and expertise wherever it’s needed to help you grow your business in markets you never thought possible, in ways you never imagined.

Our global office network spans Europe, North America and Asia. With over 440 employees (including over 120 attorneys) worldwide, our people have leading IP expertise across many industries including automotive, engineering & energy; consumer brands & services; chemistry & materials; life sciences & healthcare; and technology, media & telecoms.

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

HGF is one of Europe’s largest firms of IP specialists. With a dynamic and forward-thinking growth strategy, the firm is one of the few to offer clients a fully integrated IP solution, bringing together over 190 patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, and IP solicitors. The firm has 25 offices throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria.

HGF is already one of the leading firms in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe in terms of its national reach, volume of Patent Cooperation Treaty and EU trademark filings, and position in major legal directories. Its growth has been secured organically and through a combination of acquisition and strategic lateral hires from both private practice and in-house counsel. This has been reflected in accolades such as a continued listing in the Financial Times Leading Law Firm and winning 7 awards at the Managing IP Awards 2025.

The firm has a proven track record of forging successful long-term relationships with clients across a spectrum of business sectors and technologies. Its highly experienced attorneys, commitment to client service, and geographical profile ensure that it is uniquely placed to attend to high-value and complex IP issues.

Firm overview

Cameron IP is a progressive firm of patent and trade mark attorneys serving a global client base.

Founded in 2011, the firm has UK offices in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and an EU office in Munich. The company has 14 staff and 6 qualified attorneys.

The firm’s unique selling point is its experienced team who come from large-firm backgrounds but are able to deliver services in a boutique-firm setting, resulting in an experience for their clients that is personal, tailored and flexible.

Key clients include corporates from the UK and US and attorney firms from around the globe. The firm places great importance on building long-term relationships with its clients and attorney partners based on trust.

Cameron IP specialises in the areas of high-tech, software, AI, mechanical, electrical, electronics, chemistry, pharma, life sciences, energy and cleantech in the patent area.

The trade mark team has particular expertise in cosmetics, energy, food and drink, luxury goods, textiles, tourism, finance, software, professional services and technology.

The firm is particularly skilled in contentious IP and was amongst the first UK attorney firms to represent clients before the UPC. EPO oppositions and appeals are a specialty, along with UK court and UKIPO proceedings, and infringement, revocation, defence and entitlement actions.

Cameron IP’s ethos is based on building trust with its people, clients and partners, and doing this by demonstrating integrity, excellence, flexibility, efficiency and responsiveness.

It is one of the few firms to be ISO 9001 certified for quality management, meaning that all work is carried out according to structured processes that are externally verified.

The firm also places great emphasis on using the latest technology to continually improve the service it delivers to its clients, employing the most cutting-edge software, hardware and systems technology.