Design

At WP Thompson, our team of Attorneys have qualifications in a variety of areas under the engineering umbrella. We are experienced in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a wide range of engineering technologies including automotive, electronics, subsea technology, medical devices, optics, environmental, sports and training products, materials, as well as traditional mechanical engineering technologies.

Our experts tailor their advice based on the requirements of each client, working with individual inventors and start-ups to build their IP portfolios and helping our established multinational clients to achieve a broad scope of protection for their engineering technology.

Our SME clients value our ability to identify the 'core' of their inventions and to obtain robust, enforceable patents. We work closely with the inventors to capture the fine detail of the technology and to understand what exactly they wish to protect.

As well as providing strong technical expertise, our engineering clients value our business-focused approach, which is firmly directed towards delivering tangible commercial benefit and maximising the potential of our clients' intellectual property worldwide.

Many of the Attorneys in our engineering group have experience in industry, and this first-hand experience ensures that we can offer strong technical and commercial insights to our clients.

Whilst patents generally provide the strongest form of protection for engineering technologies, we also advise our clients in protecting their inventions via registered designs, in order to ensure that all aspects of the technology are covered.

Our ability to assist clients extends to the management and enforcement of their IP after grant of a patent. Our team of Attorneys is adept in managing IP transactions to extract the maximum benefit for our clients. Our litigation experts are highly experienced in providing advice on patent infringement and freedom-to-operate, to ensure that our clients have peace of mind when exploiting their technology.

WP Thompson has a long and varied history in securing IP protection across medical technology industries. Our multidisciplinary team brings support and expertise to assist our clients with protecting all manner of medical devices and apparatus, both in the UK and around the world, whether dealing with cutting edge prosthetic and orthotic devices to simple solutions for saving lives. We work with clients in areas as diverse as surgical apparatus and drug delivery devices to novel materials for medical applications and means for ensuring patient safety and infection control.  

We work with clients ranging from large multinationals selling millions of units of dozens of products each year to small start-ups with just one or two products seeking to enter the commercial world of medical technologies. Our team can provide the right level of support for you, to enable you to best develop, establish and grow your medical technologies business at all stages of its life.

From start to finish, our Team is here to provide you with all the tools you need from initial and ongoing IP strategy advice to help you plan for the future. We have expert patent drafting skills to provide you with a solid base to protect your innovation as well as tailor-made and client-led analysis of patent prosecution actions to give exactly the support you need to secure the best protection in the UK and abroad.

WP Thompson is here to help your business flourish. Our trade mark and design experts provide complementary IP protection to support your brand and product identity alongside its technological aspects; through to an active Contentious Matters Team who have a wealth of experience to help you enforce your IP rights, defend against any challenges raised to help you maintain your rights. They can also advise on the establishment of licensing contracts and settlement agreements to help you commercialise your intellectual property. 

We understand the crucial role of intellectual property for our clients in the creative sector and the importance of our clients' brands in the promotion and success of their products.

Our wide range of experience and expertise across IP, which includes trade marks, designs and copyright, allows us to provide comprehensive advice to our clients, helping them not only to secure registered protection of their rights, but also to fully understand the scope of their unregistered intellectual property rights. These are extremely important in the creative sector, for example with copyright in publishing and unregistered designs in the fashion industry.

We devise IP protection strategies which are closely tailored to our clients' needs and are both legally sophisticated and commercially astute. We help our clients to secure the widest scope of protection for their intellectual property, through a combination of registered and unregistered rights.

We assist our clients in enforcing their intellectual property rights in the most efficient and cost-effective manner, through negotiations and, when necessary, litigation. Our negotiating skills allow us to often persuade infringers to cease impinging upon our clients' rights without the need for litigation, by making them fully aware of the consequences of their infringing activity.

Our experienced trade mark team advises and assists clients in a wide variety of sectors, such as media, consumer goods, automotive, transport and mobility, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and food.