Biotech

Biotech

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We help biotech companies protect and commercialise their intellectual property (IP), converting breakthrough ideas into market share and revenue.

Biotech is playing an increasingly important role across science, medicine, and industry. It has the potential to improve health, reduce environmental impact, and transform how we grow, produce, and consume food.

In the therapeutic space, rapid progress in drug development, gene therapy, diagnostics, and vaccine production is reshaping how we prevent and treat disease. Outside medicine, advances in bioremediation, sustainable fuels, GMOs, and precision agriculture are helping address urgent environmental and agricultural challenges.

But with so much innovation comes increased risk. As more players enter the field, the chance of your ideas being misused or challenged rises, particularly in competitive areas where established companies are increasingly litigious.

This is where Potter Clarkson can help. Whether you're an established corporate, a growing SME, or an ambitious early-stage business, we'll help you protect your most valuable assets and stay ahead in a competitive sector.

Contact us today to discuss protecting and maximising the value of your biotech innovations.

Key Areas of Expertise

Industrial Biotech

Companies across chemicals, fuels, food, and textiles are turning to biotechnology to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and improve production methods. We help protect the innovations driving this shift, ensuring your IP supports long-term commercial value.

Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology is driving innovation in sectors ranging from construction and cosmetics to food and pharma. Whether your work involves DNA, RNA, microbiology, or cell biology, our team will help you protect and scale your ideas.

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Synthetic Biology

Therapeutic Biotech

Rapid progress in gene therapy, biologics, diagnostics, and vaccines is opening new opportunities in human and animal health. We build IP strategies that support development, attract investment, and strengthen your position in the market.

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Biotech IP

1. Expertise in your space

You’ll work with attorneys who understand the science behind your innovation, and bring years of experience advising companies in fields like synthetic biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and bioprocessing. We tailor every piece of advice to the specific scientific and commercial context you’re working in.

2. Strategic perspective

We don’t just file patents. We apply our sector experience to shape IP strategies that support your business plan. Whether you're navigating regulatory risk, planning for investment, or scaling up R&D, we help you protect and maximise the value of your innovation at every step.

3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You can access all the IP and legal advice you need in one place:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house solicitors are experts in drafting and negotiating all types of IP agreements, so you can develop, capture, scale up, and fully exploit your inventions, ideas, and innovations.
  • Our trade mark attorneys will provide strategic advice to assist in the development, protection, and enforcement of your brand to protect your reputation in the marketplace.
  • And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

4. Best-value IP products and processes

Built around the specific challenges faced by start-ups, SMEs, and investors, our innovative range of fixed-price IP solutions are designed to help you quickly and easily maximise the commercial value of your IP at each milestone, from initial funding to your chosen exit route.

How We Can Help

Our multidisciplinary biotech team is one of Europe's largest and most highly regarded. It brings together patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys with experience across every aspect of biotechnology.

Whether you're in development, seeking investment, or already on the market, we can design and implement an integrated IP and legal strategy tailored to your objectives.

We also regularly handle European patent oppositions for major biotech businesses in both therapeutic and non-therapeutic fields. This gives us the insight and experience to help you protect your position and defend your patents from challenge.

Together we will:

  • Identify, explain, and clearly present your innovations to attract investment, whether you are an established business or just starting out.‍
  • Provide budget- and stage-appropriate freedom-to-operate (FTO) advice.‍
  • Advise you on the best strategy for all your IP rights.
  • Register your patents, designs, and trade marks, and help you protect your trade secrets, worldwide.‍
  • Provide infringement and validity opinions for your patents, designs, and trade marks.
  • Carry out patent, design, and trade mark searches and watches.‍
  • Defend your IP rights from attacks via a patent or trade mark office, or court proceedings.‍
  • Enforce your rights against competitor infringement.
  • Draft the commercial, IP, and licensing agreements you need to capture, protect, and exploit your IP.
  • Offer a wider commercial perspective you can use to build and grow your business.

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Biotech IP

1. Expertise in your space

You’ll work with attorneys who understand the science behind your innovation, and bring years of experience advising companies in fields like synthetic biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and bioprocessing. We tailor every piece of advice to the specific scientific and commercial context you’re working in.

2. Strategic perspective

We don’t just file patents. We apply our sector experience to shape IP strategies that support your business plan. Whether you're navigating regulatory risk, planning for investment, or scaling up R&D, we help you protect and maximise the value of your innovation at every step.

3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You can access all the IP and legal advice you need in one place:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house solicitors are experts in drafting and negotiating all types of IP agreements, so you can develop, capture, scale up, and fully exploit your inventions, ideas, and innovations.
  • Our trade mark attorneys will provide strategic advice to assist in the development, protection, and enforcement of your brand to protect your reputation in the marketplace.
  • And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

4. Best-value IP products and processes

Built around the specific challenges faced by start-ups, SMEs, and investors, our innovative range of fixed-price IP solutions are designed to help you quickly and easily maximise the commercial value of your IP at each milestone, from initial funding to your chosen exit route.

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Biotech IP

  1. Expertise in your space

You’ll work with attorneys who understand the science behind your innovation, and bring years of experience advising companies in fields like synthetic biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and bioprocessing. We tailor every piece of advice to the specific scientific and commercial context you’re working in.

  1. Strategic perspective

We don’t just file patents. We apply our sector experience to shape IP strategies that support your business plan. Whether you're navigating regulatory risk, planning for investment, or scaling up R&D, we help you protect and maximise the value of your innovation at every step.

  1. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You can access all the IP and legal advice you need in one place:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house solicitors are experts in drafting and negotiating all types of IP agreements, so you can develop, capture, scale up, and fully exploit your inventions, ideas, and innovations.
  • Our trade mark attorneys will provide strategic advice to assist in the development, protection, and enforcement of your brand to protect your reputation in the marketplace.
  • And in the event of enforcement, our IP solicitors can draw on deep experience of running technically difficult and procedurally complex cases to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.
  1. Best-value IP products and processes

Built around the specific challenges faced by start-ups, SMEs, and investors, our innovative range of fixed-price IP solutions are designed to help you quickly and easily maximise the commercial value of your IP at each milestone, from initial funding to your chosen exit route.

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Steve Smith
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Tom Harding
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