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What does client service mean to us? It means developing custom relationships, sharing our technical expertise, and providing practical solutions delivered by pragmatic IP professionals who are easy to work with. We carefully structure our teams to ensure that we have the right blend of knowledge and experience to meet the unique needs of each client. Regardless of the industry in which you operate, our patent, design and trade mark specialists will quickly understand your business and your IP issues, with the addition of significant value right from the start of the working relationship.

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"They are a very bright, thoughtful bunch and are easy to work with. Their advice is timely, comprehensive, commercial and very sound."

Client quote, Chambers and Partners

Careers

We are a people business. To deliver exceptional service to our clients, we seek individuals with a combination of talent, commercial awareness, and integrity. Our clients depend on our expertise – but they also appreciate our individual personalities and our collaborative way of working. Within a supportive working environment, we empower our staff to strive for excellence. We recognise that when our employees reach their full potential, our firm also succeeds.

CAREERS

Insights

No ifs, just butts – another slogan dispute for Sweaty Betty

A look at the dispute between Sweaty Betty and Nixi Body over similar slogans and what it reveals about trade mark limits, descriptive branding and goodwill.

Recording assignments of IP rights worldwide: procedures and pitfalls

A guide to recording IP assignments worldwide, outlining key requirements, risks and best practices across the UK, EUIPO/EPC, Germany, Spain and the US to maintain ownership and enforce rights.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending

The CJEU clarifies that bad-faith trade mark filings face no time limits for invalidity actions, even when earlier owners knew of the bad faith or set deadlines in warning letters.

Success at the UPC

Boult represented Molecular Instruments (MI) before the Hague Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

INSIGHTS