Our full service approach to intellectual property enables us to provide our clients with real strategic input. We can help to prepare and develop an IP policy which will help increase the profitability and sustainability of your business.

Our service providers will also assist in developing best practices to ensure that appropriate marking of documentation, drawings, products, packaging and promotional literature will achieve both internal and external awareness of your IP rights. We can also help implement best practice in the ongoing recording and assessment of inventions as well as the proper use of your trade marks.

Our service providers are able to liaise effectively with your experienced professionals and will provide discussion forums to ensure continuous education and development.

It is often surprising how even quite established businesses may not appreciate their intellectual property rights or the value of those rights. We believe passionately that intellectual property audits should be a fundamental part of any business and we enthusiastically help all our clients to discover those hidden assets.

We offer a number of services which can input into your strategic thinking about intellectual property. These include searching and watching your competitors’ intellectual property rights, as well as the provision of intellectual portfolio management and case records, including our renewals service.

SEARCHES

Withers & Rogers provides tailored patent and trade mark searches. We have invaluable experience of appropriate search resources and strategies to provide added value when considering a product’s patentability or assessing the freedom to use of a product or trade mark.

WATCHING

We also maintain patent and trade mark watches to ensure you are aware of your market and competitors' activities. We don't want you to be caught by surprise.

RENEWALS AND RECORDS

Once protection has been obtained, it is important that rights are properly managed. Government fees need to be paid periodically and, over time, some rights may no longer be relevant. Our state-of-the-art renewals and records systems help us to organise clients’ portfolios and to provide renewal assessment and reports. These can be used to help clients develop an intellectual property policy of real worth. Effective management of your intellectual property assets can increase the value of your business.

TRANSLATIONS AND
EUROPEAN REGISTRATION

We have an in-house specialist team of patent translators providing translation into English from French, German, Japanese, Swedish, Italian and Spanish. Our translation team works with our patent attorneys to provide high quality translations of patent specifications in all technical fields. Every translation is thoroughly checked for accuracy by an attorney expert in the technology.  Indeed many of our attorneys are themselves at least conversational in another language. We have language skills in Japanese, German, French and Spanish.

Our extensive services also extend to a transparent and highly efficient service for registration of granted European patents. The grant phase for patents at the EPO involves filing translations of the claims and specification into different languages as well as payment of national registration fees. Our in-house expertise based on years of experience in delivering effective and sometimes urgent registration has proven to be a real benefit to our clients.