For more than 115 years we’ve worked with pioneers of their time on mission-critical, life-changing and industry-advancing innovations. Looking ahead, we continue to help the inventions of today impact and shape the future.
The beginning of a 100+ year history of innovation. Bertram Edward Dunbar Kilburn founds our firm. Over the next three decades, he serves as President of CIPA (Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
On the 1st January 1913, Captain Maurice Strode joins the firm’s partnership.
Kilburn & Strode is selected to handle UK patent prosecution for gears used in luxury automobiles. Dating back to 1899, Packard Motor Car Company was based in Detroit, Michigan.
Major Frank Halford, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a notable aero engine designer, is the inventor of the world’s first turbocharged racing car. Kilburn & Strode enjoys a long-standing working relationship with him. He also leads the introduction of the de Havilland Goblin for the Royal Air Force’s first jet fighter.
During WWII, Eric Walter Eustace Micklethwait, who later becomes partner at Kilburn & Strode and a former CIPA president, serves in the Royal Observer Corps.
Kilburn & Strode files first patents and trade marks for Sir Richard Fairey, MBE FRAeS, founder of Fairey aviation and marine business.
Ronald Hickman OBE invented the Workmate™, a popular work bench which can still be found in workshops and garages around the world. Many competitors have tried to copy the Workmate™ and Kilburn & Strode has successfully defended Ron Hickman OBE.
We have protected trade marks for the world of Beatrix Potter for more than 35 years.
Dolly the Sheep changes the way humanity looks at biology, with the successful cloning of a sheep from a differentiated cell from an adult animal. We write the patent applications and work on all of the subsequent prosecution.
We file the registration for the iconic imagery for the original Jurassic Park logo.
Kilburn & Strode's patent attorneys are the first in the UK to be the agent of record in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales – and we win emphatically. The construction point in Olympia v Warheit is on the meaning of the words “flexible pliers”.
We begin working for Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and America’s biggest manufacturing exporter. Boeing employs over 150,000 people in more than 65 countries around the world.
We fight to protect the original hit television programme Robot WarsTM by preventing a 3rd party from staging a live event under that name and have kept the trade mark in the hands of the original owner for nearly a decade.
Reaction Engines’ SABRETM engines are unique in providing the fuel efficiency of a jet engine with the high-speed performance of a rocket. The patent portfolio drafted by Kilburn & Strode has assisted with Reaction Engines’ fundraising of over £100 million from the European Space Agency, the United Kingdom Space Agency, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, and HorizonX Ventures (Boeing).
Reflecting our response to the current changing times in the IP landscape and rethinking the way that not only we, but law firms, interact with clients, we open our San Francisco Liaison Office.
We’re proud to have been at the helm with Immunocore on a series of firsts: their first therapeutic product approved by US regulatory authorities, their first T cell receptor (TCR) therapeutic to be approved in the US, and their first bispecific T cell engager that uses TCRs, components of our immune system, to specifically target cancer cells.
We begin working with TuSimple to help secure European patent protection for a sci-fi dream of the future: autonomous vehicles. TuSimple is the company responsible for the world’s first fully autonomous semi-truck to drive on public roads, without a human driver.
