Full-Service Intellectual Property Law Firm

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Ideas evolve. Value endures.

Since 1889, Potter Clarkson has continued to deliver on one promise:
to maximise the value of our clients' ideas.

As a leading full-service IP law firm, we help businesses, organisations and individuals identify, protect, commercialise, and enforce the value of their ideas and brands.

Our patent, design and trade mark attorneys work alongside specialist IP lawyers as one fully coordinated team. This proven approach brings legal, technical and commercial expertise together to give you the clarity and confidence to build, protect and grow your competitive edge across the UK, Europe and beyond.

It's a combination few firms can match, and that excellence is reflected in top-tier rankings year after year.

We Can Help You:

What intellectual property do you have?

‍Before we can use your IP to build value, we need to identify all the IP you have. This could be new ideas or new technology, a new product design, a new brand identity, or just a new way of doing things.

If you miss anything, you could leave yourself vulnerable to infringement or misappropriation. Equally, you could miss out on the full commercial value of your hard work.

To make it simple, we offer fixed-price, fixed-outcome IP solutions that assess your IP position and set out next steps.

How can you get the right level of protection?

When it comes to technology, you may think patents. When it comes to brands, you may think trade marks. However, there are other IP rights you should be factoring into your IP strategy and portfolio, including trade secrets and designs.

You also need to make sure all your rights are underpinned by the required framework of commercial agreements.

We align protection with your business plan and markets so your position is clear and defensible.

How can you maximise the value of your ideas and brand?

IP is a commercial exercise and, used commercially, your IP will drive your business forward.

We'll help you create IP portfolios and strategies that will maximise the value of your ideas and your brand, whether that involves:

securing market exclusivity
attracting investment
entering new markets
opening new revenue streams
pursuing alternative business models
establishing partnerships and collaborations

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How do you defend your IP rights?

Once you’ve established your IP rights, we proactively monitor for IP infringements and act when needed, using the full range of enforcement mechanisms from cease-and-desist letters through to major multi-jurisdictional litigation.

We act swiftly and decisively because our experienced litigators work alongside our patent experts and trade mark specialists. This integrated approach is more seamless and cost-effective than instructing multiple firms.

IP Expertise Tailored to Your Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Know you're protected across all three stages of the AI process and take advantage of the opportunities offered by AI.

Biotech

Turn your breakthrough ideas into market share and revenue with the right IP strategy.

Creative Industries

Your ideas, content, and designs need to be protected and managed to deliver long-term commercial value.

Corporates

In an intensely competitive environment, an effective IP strategy plays a key role in helping you stay ahead.

Electronics & Computing

Protect complex, high-value electronics, computing, and communications innovations so you can move quickly and stay competitive.

Engineering

Engineering is pivotal to manufacturing, automotive, defence, IT, and more, so you need advisers with proven technical expertise who can apply that experience to the challenges and opportunities you face.

Energy & Cleantech

As innovation accelerates to meet sustainability goals, competition and threats to your inventions rise too, making a clear, enforceable IP position essential for you.

FMCG

A fully formed and fully protected IP portfolio is essential in FMCG, where your product design, packaging, and branding define and secure your market.

Food & Agritech

Whether you're developing new foods, building a foodtech platform, or improving agricultural processes, you need to protect your innovation and position it for long-term commercial success.

Industrial Chemistry

With chemical products behind almost everything we use, your formulations and industrial processes need solid IP so you can protect and grow market share.

Life Sciences

In the life sciences sector, you need specialist IP advice to secure value at every stage, from research and development through to market approval.

Professional Services

Whether you're an insurer, bank, lender, investor, accountant or law firm, you need IP due diligence that assesses not just what IP is owned but what it's worth, so you can strike the best deal.

Built for Success

Recognised as a top-tier European IP law firm, we combine more than 130 years' experience with a clear focus on the future. With over 200 specialists across seven offices and a trusted network of overseas attorneys, we provide expert advice to support innovation worldwide.

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We Apply the Best Minds to Your Business

We offer extensive intellectual property expertise across commercial, technical and legal areas, delivered by specialists with diverse academic and industry backgrounds. With a singular commercial focus, our advisers put IP where it belongs: at the heart of your business.

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