Protecting and commercialising IP assets for technology businesses

Handling all areas of IP protection for new technological developments to put innovative companies in a stronger commercial position.

We have a unique proposition within the Gateley group: dedicated patent and trade mark attorney teams at Adamson Jones and Symbiosis IP working side-by-side with solicitors at Gateley Legal. This means you have access to specialist expertise for IP protection and assessment, alongside joined-up thinking with wider commercial considerations.

Our expertise

• Brand protection: We help brand owners to protect, exploit and enforce the rights of their brands. Our intellectual property services include trade mark and copyright advice, licensing, and enforcement.
• Licences and contracts: We can help to commercialise and exploit IP rights effectively through licences and collaboration, technology transfer, R&D, media and confidentiality agreements.
• Trade mark applications and management: We blend solicitor and trade mark attorney expertise, to provide all the trade mark services a company might need in one place. We are experienced at advising on clearance searches, UK and international trade mark filings, portfolio management, and disputes.
• Patent drafting: Our team cover all areas of technology, including engineering, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and chemistry, software and electronics, and biotechnology. We work in practice groups according to our areas of technical specialism to ensure we can draft patent applications that are comprehensive and technically accurate to provide an optimal scope of patent protection.
• International portfolio management: One of the crucial decisions in any patent strategy is where in the world to obtain patent protection. We have significant experience in securing patent protection in key territories around the world. We advise on patent strategy and coordinate international patent protection through our network of trusted overseas patent attorneys. 
• Representation before the UK and European Patent Offices: At the heart of our practice is a specialist patent prosecution service. We file hundreds of new patent applications each year for our domestic and overseas clients. Our services include filing new UK, European and international applications, overcoming objections during patent examination, administration of application procedures and formalities, handling annuities and renewal of registered rights and recording assignments and changes of ownership.
• Dealing with third-party patents: Correctly managing the risks associated with competitors’ patents is key to achieving commercial success with new technology. Our expertise includes European patent opposition and UK patent revocation proceedings, patent landscaping and freedom-to-operate studies, formal opinions on patent infringement risks, advice on designing around competitor patents and advice on validity and other patent-specific issues during disputes.
• Registered designs: For many new products, the design rights associated with its appearance are an important consideration for preventing copying. We offer a full range of services for the registration of designs in the UK, Europe and internationally, as well as associated advisory services on the scope of design protection, registrability and freedom-to-operate with respect to third-party design rights.
• IP disputes: Our IP disputes team is highly skilled at resolving intellectual property issues of all kinds, including court proceedings, trade mark registry disputes, patent and design infringement, domain name disputes, and social media takedowns.
• IP valuation and commercialisation: Our services perfectly complement the patent protection expertise and the wider IP and commercial legal teams to help provide comprehensive, end-to-end support to clients to enhance, understand, leverage, and realise the value of their IP. We work across a range of markets, with extensive experience in the life sciences, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sectors, as well as green chemistry, and FinTech industries.