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Intellectual property
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Patent
Patent disputes - patent & trade mark attorney firms
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Firm overview

Withers & Rogers is one of Europe’s largest dedicated intellectual property law firms, with offices across the UK, Paris and Munich. Established more than 130 years ago, we remain as passionate as ever about making intellectual property work to our clients’ best advantage. Today, our clients include many renowned, innovative organisations from across Europe, North America and Asia.

Withers & Rogers has a breadth and depth of experience and expertise that we believe is second to none. In addition to our practice groups, we have a number of specialist groups, enabling us to pool our industry knowledge and bring added value for our clients.

We offer a comprehensive service that extends to both securing IP rights – such as patents, trade mark and design registrations for the UK, Europe and further afield – and advising on their exploitation and enforcement. Alongside, we provide proactive support functions that help our clients keep track of their IP, stay on top of its maintenance, and stay in control of cost.

Recognition of the long-term, strategic importance of IP is growing apace, and to help our clients make the most of their creativity, we can build strategies that embrace critical areas like innovation culture, due diligence, freedom to operate, invention management, and patent mapping, to name but a few.

All of our patent and trade mark attorneys are selected on the basis of excellent academic achievement and industry knowledge. This ensures our clients receive a service that delivers both technical excellence and commercial insight.

Practice Areas & Sector Specialisations

Sector Expertise: 

  • Defence
  • Space
  • Automotive
  • Oil & Gas
  • Cleantech
  • Road, Rail, Marine
  • Medical Devices
  • Digital Health
  • Engineering Materials
  • Construction
  • Packaging
  • FMCG
  • Batteries
  • Gene Therapy
  • Cosmetics 
  • Food & Drink
  • Semi-Conductor Fabrication
  • Consumer Appliances
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Higher Education
  • Robotics & Autonomous Systems
  • Sports Technology

 

Address:
2 London Bridge
London
SE1 9RA
Tel:+44 (0) 20 7940 3600 Web Address:http://withersrogers.com
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Overview

Withers & Rogers is among the well-established IP firms in the UK market. The firm also has offices in Paris, France, and Munich, Germany. The firm is recommended for IP protection and portfolio management. In patents, the firm has experienced patent attorney teams to deal with inventions and patents in sectors such as renewable energy, defence, automotive, computer technology, robotics, and medical technology.

Notable patent attorneys: Joanna Thurston, Richard Worthington, Ben Palmer, Diego Black, Chris Froud, James Gray, Bethan Halliwell, Nicola Anderson, Helen Henderson, Gemma McGeough, Chris Range, and Russell Edson.

Notable trade mark attorneys: Fiona McBride and Mark Caddle.

Testimonials

2025

"Withers & Roger's IP team made it easy. As a company of engineers, dealing with lawyers can feel like we are speaking a different language. However, they just got it. With their strong engineering background, they could easily translate our thoughts into patent applications. It made the process so simple."

"Friendly, approachable and always willing to suggest alternative ways of thinking to tease out other advantages of inventions under consideration. They have a history of filing with us that also allows them to best integrate new filings with the existing portfolio."

Mark Caddle and James Grey

"Mark Caddle and James Grey are responsive and highly professional. They are up to speed with all correspondence received and communicate next steps to us efficiently. They think outside the box in instances where we encounter objections from local retailers not prepared to work in a collaborative fashion."

 

2023

"They give easy-to-understand explanations of professional advice."

"They are collegial, knowledgeable, practical, and cost efficient."

"They are responsive and provide good communication and explanation."

 

2022

"We like their technical expertise and ability to work well with academic inventors."

"They are very helpful, approachable and give good advice and recommendations to enable us to make informed decisions. Good spread of expertise across science and engineering disciplines."

"Capable, trustworthy and knowledgeable."

"Personal service with expert advisers."

"They have a good knowledge of our business and are quick to act."

"Speedy response and commercial approach."

"High level of satisfaction with their service."

"In-depth understanding of our technology. Broad capability across jurisdictions and all aspects of patent lifecycle. Personal, attentive service."

"They are very responsive and give great advice, and our client relationship manager is excellent."

"They have the track record."

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Intellectual property

Patent case studies show drafting, filing, prosecution, portfolio management, and office proceedings in different technical fields. Clients include Afiniti and Brecknell Willis & Co. Telecoms and electronics patent partner Michael Jaeger left the firm in 2024. David Elsy and Karl Barnfather have retired.

Trade mark case studies show trade mark clearance and strategy advice, prosecution, and portfolio management.

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