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Mewburn Ellis LLP
Located on St John’s Innovation Park, our Cambridge office serves clients from Cambridge and around the world. We cover the full range of intellectual property issues: patents, trade marks, designs, industrial copyright and related matters, in all fields of technology.
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 420 383
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The Maurice Wilkes Building St John’s Innovation Park Cambridge
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Please contact us for advice on any legal or commercial matter relating to intellectual property. Our areas of expertise include:
- advising on patentability and patenting strategy
- drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the UK and Europe
- handing patent oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office
- advising on, filing, obtaining and defending trade marks and registered designs
- performing IP searching, due diligence and IP reports, including opinions on freedom to operate
- conducting "IP Audits" for businesses funded by partner schemes of the UK Intellectual Property Office, including GrowthAccelerator
- managing international portfolios of intellectual property rights
- advising on infringement of IP rights, including patents, trade marks, (registered and unregistered), designs (registered and unregistered) and copyright, and helping our clients to defend infringement proceedings brought against them
- dealing with other disputes relating to intellectual property, including pre-litigation contentious matters and preparing and advising on settlement agreements, providing litigation support and conducting patent litigation
- establishing entitlements to inventions, designs, copyright and trade marks including preparing any documents necessary to put in place an unbroken chain of title
- advising on and preparing documents relating to technology transfer, including assignment and licensing of patents, designs, copyright and know-how, trade secrets and confidential information; and
- recording assignments, licences and name changes in relation to intellectual property in jurisdictions throughout the world.
We cover all technical fields, including biotechnology & life sciences, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, computers and software, electronics and mechanical engineering.
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