UK & EU Patent Filing & Prosecution

Olswang's Team of UK and European patent attorneys includes specialists in electronics, software, telecommunications, online technologies, mechanical inventions and pharmaceuticals, including biological products, medical technologies and devices. We are able to handle all technical subject matter.

Our patent attorneys offer a full range of services, including drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications before the UK intellectual property office and the European Patent Office, Oppositions and Appeals before the European Patent Office, analysis of patent portfolios, due diligence analysis and advice on the strategic management and optimisation of existing portfolios.

Our attorneys also file for registered design protection in the UK and Europe and advise on unregistered design rights.

Our attorney team is supported by a number of dedicated patent administrators with many years of experience who maintain our comprehensive records systems.

Our patent attorneys work within a broader IP team of 45 solicitors, trade mark attorneys and paralegals, offering a full range of IP advice covering litigation, transactional, corporate and brand/product management. Olswang is the only UK law firm to offer this fully integrated practice. Olswang's IP practice forms a part of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications ("TMT") team, awarded UK TMT Team of the Year 2009 (Legal Business).