United Kingdom (England)

Firm overview

Page White Farrer has great expertise as a firm of specialist patent and trade mark attorneys, with offices in Leeds, London and Germany, with which to help clients and increase the value of their businesses. We have many decades of experience and an impressive breadth of technical knowledge and clients. Our attorneys are skilled in all aspects of intellectual property and each of our practitioners is proficient in particular technologies or legal disciplines, giving clients a winning combination of technical knowledge, business acumen and a sound appreciation of the workings and nuances of IP law. Page White Farrer's clients include multinational companies, start-ups, charities and individual inventors from around the world. Our expertise includes handling intellectual property in 177 countries, and we are highly respected following the successes gained for our clients.

Firm overview

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP is a leader in the European IP market, having driven innovation in the industry for over 200 years. The firm advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property including drafting, filing and prosecuting patent and trade mark applications, drafting and negotiating licence agreements and other commercial IP agreements, advising on the transfer of property rights, assisting clients with patent restoration matters and conducting enforcement and revocation litigation.

The firm has one of Europe’s largest intellectual property teams serving blue-chip clients across the globe. The firm’s attorneys have considerable technical knowledge, bringing together experience from industry-leading companies, academic research at leading universities, and extensive patent expertise in the areas of engineering and tech, chemistry and materials, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, supplementary protection certificates and information communications technology and standards.

Through the firm’s fully integrated Dispute Resolution and Transactions teams, the firm is able to provide a holistic service for clients which supports their IP needs from inception to commercialisation. The Dispute Resolution team, comprised of experienced solicitors, barristers and patent attorney litigators, represents clients at all levels of the European Patent Office (EPO).The team is also adept at conducting enforcement litigation and revocation actions before the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and patent, copyright, trade mark and other IP litigation in the English courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Carpmaels & Ransford is one of the few firms that can use the same team to handle parallel disputes in the EPO, UPC, and UK courts, while also coordinating national actions across Europe. The firm is perfectly positioned to represent clients at the UPC and is leading the first revocation action at the new court.  

As well as advising on the acquisition and licensing of IP rights, and other IP focused agreements, (such as development and collaboration agreements), the Transactions Team manages multi-jurisdictional patent/trade mark assignment recordal projects, provides specialist advice on the transfer of priority rights and assists clients with the restoration of registered IP rights around the world.

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