Engineering

Engineering

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Our patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys are specialists in protecting your innovations and getting the most value from them in today's fast-moving engineering sector.

Engineering plays a key role across almost every sector. It's applied to a wide range of technologies, from traditional manufacturing and automotive to defence, aerospace, energy, medical, chemicals, food and drink, electronics, and IT.

Alongside machinery and industrial processes, today's engineering work often involves AI, advanced materials, 3D printing, blockchain, bioinformatics, and more. The pace of change is fast, and the landscape is increasingly complex.

To protect your ideas and realise their value, you need advisers with direct experience in these technologies. They also need the ability to apply that experience to the challenges and opportunities you face.

That's exactly what our specialist engineering team delivers.

Speak to our team about protecting and commercialising your innovations.

Key Areas of Expertise

Advanced Materials

New materials are helping tackle some of today's biggest technical, economic and sustainability challenges, creating valuable commercial opportunities. Our team has experience across biomaterials, composites, graphene, polymers and other more, and we understand the pressures and opportunities your business faces.

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Advanced Materials

Automotive

Technologies like autonomous driving and fuel cells are changing how vehicles are made and used. This presents challenges for both established manufacturers and new entrants to the market. We help you take a robust approach to identifying, protecting, and managing the IP behind your innovations.

Spacetech

Space technologies are advancing rapidly, from launch and propulsion systems to satellites and space stations. Our specialists work across AI, software, energy, and communications to protect and commercialise new ideas in this evolving sector.

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Spacetech

Sportstech

Innovation in wearables, AI, and smart fitness equipment is reshaping the sportstech market. We help clients secure the protection they need to grow, compete, and stay ahead.

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Sportstech

Textiles

From the earliest weaving methods to today's wearable technology and the evolution of traditional, modern, and smart textile materials, we've been closely involved in every stage of textile innovation. We bring decades of experience working with major brands to protect their IP and respond when their rights are challenged.

4 Reasons to Choose Potter Clarkson for Your Engineering IP

1. Expertise in your sector

As well as deep technical expertise, we have extensive experience working with a wide range of engineering clients. Our advice is tailored to the specific demands of your technology, your business, and your market.

2. Strategic perspective

The depth of experience we’ve built across the engineering sector means we understand the challenges you face from an IP, engineering, and commercial perspective. We provide clear, strategic advice to help you achieve your commercial objectives in the most effective way.

3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You’ll benefit from a team that brings together patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys so you can access the advice you need from one source:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
  • Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
  • 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 engineering team includes patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys who understand the technologies you work with and the commercial pressures you face.

You'll benefit from a joined-up strategy that protects what matters most, reduces risk, and positions your innovation for long-term success in the UK, across Europe, and worldwide.

Here's how we help:

  • Recommend the intellectual property (IP) rights that best support your objectives, particularly important for engineering projects that rely on registered designs.
  • 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 Engineering IP

1. Expertise in your sector

As well as deep technical expertise, we have extensive experience working with a wide range of engineering clients. Our advice is tailored to the specific demands of your technology, your business, and your market.

2. Strategic perspective

The depth of experience we’ve built across the engineering sector means we understand the challenges you face from an IP, engineering, and commercial perspective. We provide clear, strategic advice to help you achieve your commercial objectives in the most effective way.

3. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You’ll benefit from a team that brings together patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys so you can access the advice you need from one source:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
  • Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
  • 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 Engineering IP

  1. Expertise in your sector

As well as deep technical expertise, we have extensive experience working with a wide range of engineering clients. Our advice is tailored to the specific demands of your technology, your business, and your market.

  1. Strategic perspective

The depth of experience we’ve built across the engineering sector means we understand the challenges you face from an IP, engineering, and commercial perspective. We provide clear, strategic advice to help you achieve your commercial objectives in the most effective way.

  1. Seamless multidisciplinary support

You’ll benefit from a team that brings together patent attorneys, IP solicitors, and trade mark attorneys so you can access the advice you need from one source:

  • Our patent attorneys draft and prosecute patent applications, and defend or oppose patents.
  • Our specialist in-house IP solicitors negotiate and draft the agreements you need to develop, scale, and fully exploit your innovation.
  • Our trade mark attorneys protect and enforce your brand against competitor activity.
  • 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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Get in Touch with Our Engineering Team

Dave Clark
Peter Finnie
Dave Holt
Dan Hudson
Emmy Hunt

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