With a need to balance scientific invention with commercial objectives, the company needed IP advisers who could both gain the confidence of its scientists and engineers and help it meet its commercial objectives.
BG Research Ltd and sister company BioGene Ltd are innovative SMES in diagnostics technology, encompassing both biotechnology and biology along with electrical and mechanical aspects.
In a significant case for the Nordic fishing industry, we successfully defended a patent, which we had also prosecuted to grant, when it faced an Opposition from a global manufacturer of food processing equipment.
Our client, UK distiller and beverage producer, Fishers Gin faced a potentially damaging opposition from rival gin brand KOVAL, on the basis that there was a visual similarity between the design of the bottle labels of both brands.
We helped online voiceover marketplace, Voices.com, to secure the European trade mark VOICEBANK, following objections by the EUIPO that it lacked distinctiveness.
In 2018, we preserved the European patent in a successful defence in EPO opposition proceedings filed by two generic pharmaceutical manufacturers.
We have worked with KLAW Products and Gall Thomson Environmental, two innovative subsidiary companies of engineering group Signum Technology, for many years. Combining design, engineering, patent and trade mark expertise, our team has played an instrumental role in building a strong IP portfolio for these companies.
Our biotech team brought to bear their deep scientific understanding and legal experience in patent drafting and global filing and prosecution strategy to secure commercially-focussed patent protection.
The patents and design registrations successfully obtained by the team at Potter Clarkson put the necessary IP protection in place to enable Sanandco to commercialise its product in its most commercially important territories.