A patent is a boundary drawn in words. We draw it claim by claim, wide enough to matter and tight enough to hold, and tell you before filing whether it will.
Request a patentability opinionMechanical, electrical, software-implemented and materials. If your idea is in biotech, we'll say so on the first call and give you a name.
Figure 1 is a jug. Every numbered part is a word in a claim. Scroll, and watch the fence move.
A patent stops at the border. One UK filing gives you a year to decide where else. We list the markets where copying would actually hurt, and file there. Nowhere else. Every square costs money for twenty years.
Until it's filed, anyone who sees it can build it. The first meeting is under confidentiality. The priority date is the day we file, not the day you had the idea.
We look for the fence that's already there. Prior art, in plain language, with a written view on whether yours can be granted. If it can't, you stop here for £1,200.
Claims first, then the description, then the drawings. Claim 1 as broad as the search allows; twelve narrower ones behind it as fallback.
An hour, in the room. You tell us what we've misunderstood about the invention. There's always something.
The priority date. From here, you can talk about it. Twelve months to decide on the rest of the world.
Every stage is quoted before it starts and invoiced when it's done. Official fees are listed separately, at cost, with the receipt.
Engineer before attorney. Drafted four hundred applications; defended sixty at the European Patent Office. Draws her own figures.
Fifteen years on computer-implemented inventions, the hardest fence to build. Writes claims a judge can read without an engineer.
Send a sketch and a paragraph, under confidentiality. Two weeks later you'll have a written view on whether the fence can be built, and where the neighbours are.
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