We are a small and traditional patent practice. We focus on patent proceedings before the European and US Patent Offices.
However, we have legal attorneys with rights to practice in the United States and England and Wales. We will review assignment agreements and patent licenses and make preliminary investigations of patent infringement for these jurisdictions.
Additionally, within the firm we have an attorney who holds a diploma on Patent Litigation in Europe from Universite De Strasbourg and we will make preliminary investigations of patent infringement for the new Unified Patent Court. We do not handle matters before the patent courts, but we have colleagues at several excellent US and European firms with deep experience before the national patent courts of the US and Europe and the ability to bring proceedings before the new Unified Patent Court. We often are called upon to help make referrals in these matters.
Finally, we work with a very limited number of companies, and we establish close contact with those companies. We believe in bi-weekly meetings and prefer them to be in person. Our offices in London and Boston are very accessible and we are always willing to travel to our client’s office.
OUR DAILY WORK
AND PURPOSE
Patent Proceedings: Our mission is to provide our clients with the type of useful and practical advice that experienced in-house IP counsel provides to their client.
To accomplish this, we stay true to traditional patent practice. That practice avoids the assembly-line approach to patent drafting practiced too often today. Additionally, we expect to invest the time needed to learn our client's technical innovations and their business objectives. Finally, we keep our eyes on the courts and markets so that we can offer experienced counsel on matters of litigation and on commercial transactions.
Through this approach we help each of our clients develop a sensible patent portfolio that is understandable, provides commercially relevant protection and makes sense to company management and investors.
Finally, we are committed to hiring excellent people and then providing them the training and independence that excellent people use to produce great work with great professionalism, and we commit to work only with clients that share in this mission.