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Barker Brettell

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Firm Overview:

Barker Brettell provides intellectual property advice to businesses, organisations and individuals across the world. With over 62 patent, trade mark, design and copyright attorneys, the firm offers a full range of IP-related services, from the strategic management of global patent and trade mark portfolios to advising inventors on how to protect their ideas and products best. The firm currently employs 11 equity partners, 114 attorneys and support staff - including 30 paralegals/administrators – located around five UK and Swedish offices.

Main Areas of Practice:

Barker Brettell’s aim is to ensure clients are well-advised and informed when obtaining, protecting, maximising and defending their IP rights. The firm’s attorneys are positioned and qualified to provide professional advice and seamless service to its global client base. Many of the attorneys have received prestigious individual and team awards from their professional peers, as well as for their academic capabilities. This is of particular interest for clients in specific sectors or niche areas, where it’s advantageous to have an attorney who can quickly grasp technology and understand complex issues. As a result, Barker Brettell consistently receives praise for providing cost-effective 'commercially sound and proactive advice', judiciously guiding clients on IP strategy, portfolio management, clearance, prosecution, oppositions, cancellations, enforcement, IP audits and valuations.

The firm has extensive knowledge and experience representing clients before the UKIPO, EUIPO, and WIPO; consistently ranking as a 'Top-Tier' firm in several leading directories and professional IP research and analysis. As a 'leading European Patent Law Firm' (Financial Times), it has a proven track record in handling substantial volumes of patents and UK and EU trade mark filings. Barker Brettell’s diverse client portfolio spans the UK and international FTSE100/250 companies, start-ups, entrepreneurs, industry-leading brands and companies at the forefront of technological innovations.

Key Sector Expertise:

Barker Brettell has a sector-focused approach spanning Aerospace, Automotive, Computing & Software, Cosmetics, Energy, Food & Drink, Medical and Universities. Within many of those sectors, it advises on all the fundamental EPO-recognised technical fields, including: Biotechnology; Computer Implemented Technology; AI and Computing and software; Electronics and semiconductors; Engineering and manufacturing; FinTech; Life sciences and chemistry; Medical devices; Pharmaceuticals; and Physics and materials.

Additional Offices:

-5 Chancery Lane, London, England, UK, EC4A 1BL (For correspondence, please use the Birmingham address)

-Medina Chambers, Town Quay, Southampton, England, UK, SO14 2AQ

-Kungsbroplan 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 112 27

-Green Innovation Park, Ulls väg 29C, Uppsala, Sweden, 756 51 (For correspondence, please use the Birmingham address)

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  • Birmingham
    100 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK, B16 8QQ
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Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys
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Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys
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Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys
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Band 2
Intellectual Property: Trade Mark Attorneys
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Catherine A Wiseman
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Band 1