Beck Greener

Company Profile

At Beck Greener we know that traditional values have a place even for a business at the forefront of modern technology. Our approach has always been to combine the very best professional advice with a distinctive personal service, tailored according to the client's needs. We aim to give robust, commercially useful advice in relation to all aspects of intellectual property rights and their exploitation.

Our Services

We do much more than simply protect new ideas and new logos. Our legal and technical skills and knowledge and our in depth experience enable us to guide you from initial concepts to commercial success. We are concerned not just with legal advice but also with ensuring that our clients use our services to make maximum impact in the market place. As professionals we are committed to the continuous upgrading of our scientific and technical knowledge and our professional skills.

Intellectual property protection is of paramount importance to any business. We provide expert advice based on a wealth of experience in the field. We always aim to give the best professional service whether we are dealing with the individual inventor or a major multinational.

We protect inventions from simple mechanical toys to complex new drug formulations requiring global protection. We protect famous brands worldwide, and help start-ups to identify and protect a name or logo with the potential to become a famous brand of the future.

We are Intellectual Property Litigators so that, if conflict does arise, we can litigate intellectual property matters in the English Courts.

Types of Work Undertaken

Patents

We act in all matters relating to patent prosecution, maintenance and enforcement. We prepare, file and prosecute patent applications in the UK and European Patent Offices. We arrange for the filing of non-UK national patent applications through local attorneys in all significant countries in the world and oversee the prosecution of the patent applications to grant. We act in patent infringement negotiations and litigation, whether for patent proprietors or defendants. We also provide patent clearance advice and/or prior art searches.

All of our patent attorneys specialise in one or more of the usual technical fields of chemistry, biotechnology, engineering and physics, and all have particular specialist expertise within those fields. All of our patent partners are experienced European Patent Attorneys and represent clients directly before the European Patent Office.

Trade Marks

We pride ourselves in providing a full trade mark service to our clients, including brand clearance, filing, prosecution, maintenance and enforcement of rights.

Although trade mark rights have traditionally been granted on a territory by territory basis, we know that the business environment is international. We ensure that we have a working knowledge of overseas trade mark law and practice and a valuable network of local counsel in all major countries.

We act before OHIM (The European Community Trade Marks Office) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation and have experience in all aspects of the Community and International trade mark registration systems.

Designs/Copyright

We advise in relation to all aspects of industrial design and copyright.

We register designs in the UK Designs Registry. We act before OHIM for European community designs which can provide cost-effective protection for a design for the whole of the EU. We arrange for national registrations of designs throughout the world. We act for clients in respect of infringement matters, whether for the rights owner or the defendant.

We also advise on unregistered design rights, industrial copyright and matters relating, for example, to copyright, technical drawings, software and logos.