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Protecting and managing your intellectual property

Carry out a patent search

UK Patent Office: The UK Patent Office holds details of all the UK's registered patents, designs, trademarks and copyrighted works. The database is searchable online.
www.patent.gov.uk/search
European Patent Office: The European Patent Office holds details of all registered patents within EU member countries. The database is searchable online.
gb.espacenet.com
US Patent Office: The US Patent Office holds details of all the US's registered patents and trademarks. The database is searchable online.
www.uspto.gov/patft
Japanese Patent Office: The Japanese Patent Office holds details of all Japan's registered patents, designs and trademarks. The database is searchable online.
www.jpo.go.jp/quick_e/index_search.htm

Hire a patent agent or lawyer

Anderson & Company: Legal services to the business and scientific community>>>
Brethertons LLP: Brethertons LLP is an established firm of solicitors, able to trace its roots back nearly 200 years. We take what is good about being 'traditional' and 'established' and mould it with 'modern' and ... >>>
Beechwood Solicitors: Beechwood Solicitors is a specialist commercial law firm providing personal and business focused legal solutions.>>>
White & Black Legal LLP: Law firm specialising in corporate and technology law.>>>
Northwood Reid: Northwood Reid is a niche legal practice, based in Oxford on the Magdalen Science Park. ... >>>
Julian Taylor Solicitors: The team at Julian Taylor Solicitors provides practical, down to earth and effective advice to clients in connection with their employment law needs. By way of a combination of up to the minute ... >>>
Marks and Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys: Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs>>>
Charles Russell LLP: Charles Russell LLP is a leading legal practice with offices in Oxford, London, Guildford, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Geneva and Bahrain. We provide a full range of services to UK and international ... >>>
Morgan Cole solicitors: Morgan Cole is a UK law firm committed to providing the highest quality legal services and commercially focused advice from offices throughout south wales and southern england.>>>
HEIPS: Heips provides Intellectual Properrty Services: Advice, Filing, Prosecution of Patents, Designs, copyright and Trade Marks>>>
Manches LLP: Business, Technology and Media Lawyers.>>>
Frank B. Dehn & Co.: Frank B. Dehn & Co. is one of the largest UK firms of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. The Oxford office was opened in 2002, with one of its aims being to provide affordable patent services to small ... >>>
Steen & Co Employment Solicitors: We provide high quality employment law advice. We are very experienced at dealing with employment problems and act for both employers and employees. Some law firms act only for one side or the other. ... >>>
JA Kemp & Co: J.A. Kemp & Co. is a leading firm of U.K. and European Patent Attorneys providing extensive services in the field of intellectual property rights.>>>
Darbys: Darbys is the leading 'full service' law firm in the Thames Valley and South Midlands region. The firm offers a full range of legal services to business and private clients from white collar crime ... >>>
Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons: Blake Lapthorn Linnell offers a full range of services for businesses, organisations and the individual from its five offices in Oxford, London, Winchester, Southampton, Fareham and Portsmouth.>>>
Boult Wade Tennant: Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, Registered Trade Mark Attorneys. Advice to companies and individuals on patents, designs, trade marks, copyright, domain names, IP searches and ... >>>

Protecting your data

DiskEng Data Recovery: Data recovery specialists providing 24x7 hard drive recovery, RAID data recovery, backup tape recovery & portable media recovery.
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Further Information

Marks & Clerk Intellectual Property Update: Articles include: ... >>>
Harmonisation of European Patent Office and UK Patent Office Practice: Oxford patent expert Dr. Philip Webber recently gave a presentation at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorney's (CIPA) annual Biotech Seminars on the subject of 'Harmonisation of European Patent ... >>>

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