Intellectual Property

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Boult Wade Tennant
Intellectual Property – Innovation
Boult Wade Tennant is a leading European intellectual property firm that helps clients protect, manage and enforce their IP rights.
  • We are forward thinking, dynamic and innovative – and we support innovation of every kind, worldwide.
  • Our patent, trade mark and design teams specialise in advising clients over the full life cycle of brands, products or systems; from acquisition, exploitation and protection to commercial use, infringement or contentious issues.
  • Our clients range from entrepreneurs and start-ups to household names, governments and universities.
  • We have offices across the UK and Europe: London, Cambridge, Reading, Munich, Frankfurt and Madrid.

Become one of the patent attorneys of the future

Join Boult Wade Tennant and you’ll get your IP career off to a head start. Our renowned training programme will equip you with all the skills you need to be an outstanding patent or trade mark attorney and help you take your first steps towards fulfilling your career ambitions.

Our work is international in nature, so you’ll get to work with overseas clients and service providers right from the start. As your career progresses, you’ll build professional networks with attorneys around the world, and gain insight into different national and regional practices. Once qualified, you could have the opportunity to travel abroad.

At Boult Wade Tennant we can promise you excellent, ongoing professional training; exposure to inventions long before they become a commercial reality; and an incredible client list. So come and join our team and launch your career in the exciting world of IP.

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Reddie & Grose
Intellectual Property
Reddie & Grose specialises in the full range of IP rights including patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant varieties.
  • With offices in London, Cambridge, Munich and The Hague, we handle the full range of IP rights for a global client base ranging from SMEs through to large corporations, including some of the world’s best-known companies and brands.
  • Our experienced team of IP professionals includes specialists in a wide range of technical disciplines.
  • We offer services to multiple industries, with particular strengths in electronics and software, mechanical engineering, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Curious about new technologies?

Would you love to work with clients at the cutting edge of technology, from innovations based on the latest research in telecoms, semiconductor devices, software and AI, through to electric vehicles, fibre optics, lasers and beyond? Join Reddie & Grose and you’ll be doing just that!

Our bespoke training programme is recognised as being one of the best in the profession. It kicks off with a two-week intensive “bootcamp”, then you’ll complete weekly training sessions, working closely with a partner of the firm who will be responsible for your day-to-day training and development.

We’ll then support you through professional qualifications that will set you on your path to becoming a patent or trade mark attorney.

If you’re a problem-solver who is not afraid to get stuck in with new technologies you might not have encountered before, there’s a rewarding and stimulating career waiting for you here at Reddie & Grose.

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Appleyard Lees
Intellectual Property – Electrical, Electronics & Computing
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm, with over seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators.
  • We support some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies and household names.
  • In addition to our catalogue of multinational and multimillion-pound clients, we are equally proud of the role we have played in the growth of start-up businesses.
  • We help our clients to maximise the value of their intellectual property throughout its entire life cycle, as well as managing any post-grant challenges that arise.
  • With offices in UK innovation hotspots, we are ideally positioned to give clients expert strategic IP advice both in the UK and worldwide.

Work on brand-new innovation before anyone else hears about it

Appleyard Lees offers a structured career path that encourages development, and our global client base gives you the opportunity to work with prestigious international clients.

Join our team and you’ll be able to put your degree to use from day one, working to protect the groundbreaking innovation of some of the world’s most well-known tech companies. The job is intellectually challenging, but it is also extremely rewarding.

You’ll be trained by our Partners and Senior Associates and, from day one, you’ll be working on real work for our clients. You will be able to join meetings with inventors and assist our qualified attorneys at hearings and trials, and we’ll give you all the support you need to qualify as a UK and European patent attorney. We pride ourselves on looking after our staff, and will support you throughout your career with specialist training and progression opportunities.

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Mathys & Squire LLP
Intellectual Property – It & Engineering
Founded in 1910, Mathys & Squire is a full-service IP firm with specialists in a range of technical fields.
  • We handle major patent and trade mark portfolios for some of the world’s largest organisations.
  • Our attorneys and trainees have a mix of scientific degrees from biochemistry, pharmacology, genetics, microbiology and plant sciences to electronics, telecommunications and engineering.
  • We have over 75 qualified attorneys and a dedicated IP consulting team across offices in London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, York, Luxembourg, Munich and Paris, as well as teams based in Belfast, China and Japan.

Variety and innovation

If you like the sound of work that is varied, and the stimulation of working on cutting-edge technology on behalf of highly innovative clients, then Mathys & Squire could be the place for you!

When you first join, you’ll be immersed in an extensive training programme, and supported through your professional qualifications and beyond. Best of all, the company has a clear career progression structure from Trainee Patent Attorney to Associate, Managing Associate and Partner.

We’re really proud of our lack of hierarchy – we are a meritocracy where talent and hard work leads to new opportunities and rewards.

At Mathys & Squire you’ll have an intellectually satisfying career, where you’ll never stop learning. Professionally among the best in their field, our employees are friendly and supportive, making for an enjoyable and social workplace in which each and every person can flourish.

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