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Boult Wade Tennant

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First Floor, 9 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxford, OX14 4RR, UNITED KINGDOM Map

Tel:01235 828260

Fax:01235 861495

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Web:http://www.boult.com

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Ms Claire Baldock (Partner)

Mr Nick McLeish (Partner)

Hsumin Ming Chung (Partner)

Adrian Hayes

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 watches, IP management, policy and strategy, enforcement and due diligence exercises. Offices: London, Reading Cambridge and Oxford.

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Boult Wade Tennant assists companies and individuals in the protection, management and enforcement of their intellectual property in the UK, the rest of Europe and worldwide.
Services include:

	Patent Specifications
	Patent Applications
	Registered Designs
	Unregistered Design Rights
	Trade Mark Applications
	Copyright Advice
	Post Grant Proceedings
	Inter-party Conflicts
	Domain Name Advice
	IP Searches and Watches
	IP Review/Audit
	Portfolio Management
	IP Strategy and Policy
	Infringement Advice
	IP Renewals
	Licensing
	Overflow Services for In-house Departments

The firm represents companies of all sizes ranging from multi-nationals to business start-ups operating in all major commercial and industrial sectors. Technical specialities include biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, petrochemicals, chemical engineering, bioinformatics, materials science, software, electrical engineering, semiconductors, opto-electronics and lasers, mechanical engineering and business methods.

The firm has five main practice groups. Four of these are technology-specific - High Tech and Electrical, Engineering and Designs, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, and Chemical and Materials. These deal with patent, design, confidentiality and copyright-related matters. The fifth practice is the firm's Trade Mark and Domain Name Group. Further detail about the Groups, our attorneys and their expertise can be found at www.boult.com.

The firm's attorneys have extensive experience in the drafting of original patent specifications, evaluation of rights, the handling of oppositions, revocation actions and appeals, the handling of interparty conflicts worldwide, advice on infringement, and enforcement matters. The attorney's are experienced in the drafting of opposition and appeal statements and in the conduct of oral proceedings before the examining and opposition divisions of the EPO and the Boards of Appeal.

Boult Wade Tennant has a substantial and highly regarded trade mark practice which assists in the selection, protection, management and enforcement of trade marks, with domain name disputes and with advice in connection with copyright and other IP related areas. The firm protect some very high profile brand names and acts for a diverse range of clients in the retailing, food and drink, events, travel, sports merchandising, media and theatre sectors. The firm files a large number of UK and Community Trade Mark applications each year and the attorneys have amassed considerable experience, overcoming objections, successfully defending oppositions and prosecuting appeals. The firm is also known for expertise in relation to trade mark filing and rebranding programmes.

Boult Wade Tennant offers a seamless service with in-house departments handling records, renewals, searches, technical illustration, and translation services. The firm also specialises in recording assignments and licences worldwide and the transfer of large incoming portfolios.

The firm provides IP audit for organisations wishing to undertake a comprehensive review of their existing portfolio; patent, design and trade mark portfolio management services for organisations with overflow services for in-house departments which are overloaded. In addition, the firm undertakes extensive due diligence exercises on behalf of investors and has prepared patent agent reports for stock market listings. This firm also provides regular bulletins on IP developments and changes in law and procedure (also at www.boult.com) and IP seminars and briefings.

Key:	Legal, Patent agent, lawyer or legal adviser