Dispute Resolution

Our goal is to get the right outcome for you, rather than to build statistics or make case law

Patents are hard-won assets. We recognise it can take time and resources at the R&D stage to arrive at an invention, followed by more time and resources to craft a patent application and take it through the examination and grant stages.

When a challenge is raised against your patent, you need to know you have an experienced team who will fight your corner and devise the best strategy to protect your commercial position.

Whether it is an EPO opposition, a court challenge, or a response to a UK IPO opinion request, we will ensure we understand what aspects of the technology you need to protect in order to support your business and guide you through the process, every step of the way.

Once you are thinking about commercialising your inventions, we can help with freedom to operate searching, ensuring that you are aware of third-party rights and the options for how to safely navigate round these. Our contentious team can assist with filing EPO oppositions or invalidity actions to attack third party patent rights, whether to clear the way for a specific commercial product or process or to achieve strategic positions for other commercial reasons. We can also support the filing of UK IPO opinion requests and third-party observations as means to achieve your commercial aims with regard to third-party patent rights.

We’ll also be there for you when you think someone is infringing your patent rights. We can provide you with a range of options for reacting to this situation, recognising that whilst sometimes court action is required to reach the desired outcome, it can often be possible to make progress via negotiated solutions.

Our team can conduct regular searching for patent filings being made by your competitors or in specific technical areas of interest. Monitoring the IP landscape can identify potential issues early, meaning that we can take proactive action where needed and minimise the need for more complex and costly options.

Please get in touch if you would like to chat about how we can support your team with our patent dispute resolution resources.