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Intellectual Property lawyers

In today’s knowledge economy, where often the most substantial value of a business is based on its intangible assets and goodwill, intellectual property plays a key role in obtaining a competitive advantage. The right brands will win the hearts and minds of consumers and customers. The right patents will prevent others exploiting your inventions, or provide a substantial barrier to market access. Copyright, confidentiality and rights in designs also have a vital role to play.

A cohesive IP strategy, including both commercialisation and enforcement, will ensure that maximum value is obtained from your IP portfolio. Our team understands your business needs and objectives and has worked with some of the world’s best known brands. Our clients include organisations from banks to technology companies, pharmaceuticals to FMCG, and we help them realise their commercial goals.

We advise on all aspects of commercial IP assets, including finding the best strategy for the creation, identification, registration and capture of assets, their realisation through commercial agreements and licensing, and their protection and enforcement through litigation and other dispute resolution.

I am very pleased with their work because they are able to provide timely, business-oriented advice, and have a good understanding of our business and the market in which we operate.
Chambers UK, 2016

Your IP strategy should support your commercial activities. We work with clients to complete strategic reviews of IP commercialisation. 

We also advise on IP enforcement at all levels of UK courts (civil and criminal), OHIM, the CJEU and beyond in multi-jurisdictional disputes. Costs can quickly escalate in litigation, so project management is key to our service, driving forward cases, narrowing issues, and managing other service providers.

 
Agata Stachowiak
Agata Stachowiak
Associate
Poland, Warsaw
Agata is an attorney-at-law and an Associate in the Warsaw trade marks and design team integrated into the CMS London office. Agata specialises in intellectual property law, with a particular expertise...
Marek Blaszyk
Marek Blaszyk
Trainee
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Marek is a trainee patent attorney in the IP department. Prior to joining CMS Marek studied Biomedical Sciences at the University of Dundee, focusing on molecular biology and targeted protein degradation...
Harriet Godwin
Dr Harriet Godwin
Trainee
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Harriet specialises in the drafting and prosecution of technology-based patent applications, particularly computer related inventions (hardware and software). Harriet studied Natural Sciences at the...
Liam Jones
Liam Jones
Trainee
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Liam recently joined the London office to work with the IP department as a trainee patent attorney, assisting in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the technology sector. He recently...
Luke Murray
Luke Murray
Trainee
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Luke recently joined the London IP department to train as a patent attorney, supporting the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the hi-tech sector. He completed a masters degree in Astrophysics...
Sophie Skidmore
Trainee
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Sophie Skidmore is a trainee patent attorney in the Life Sciences IP department. Sophie did her PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on the use of stem cells to model...
Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein
Associate (Patent Attorney)
United Kingdom, London
Alex is a qualified European and UK patent attorney and is involved in the prosecution of patent applications and oppositions and appeals at the EPO. Alex studied Natural Sciences at the University of...
Alan Nelson
Alan Nelson
Office Managing Partner
United Kingdom, Glasgow
Alan Nelson is the Managing Partner of CMS Glasgow and a very experienced IT and information lawyer. He has advised a large number of public and private sector bodies on a variety of IT, outsourcing deals...
Suzu Rapeaux
Suzu Rapeaux
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Suzu is a European Patent Attorney and part-qualified UK Patent Attorney. She specialises in prosecution of patent applications in a range of technologies, including telecommunications, semiconductor...
Lewis Yule
Part-qualified Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Lewis is a part-qualified patent attorney in the IP department and works to support the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the fields of telecommunications, electronics, and computer-related...