The Lovells patents team consists of more than 40 lawyers practising from offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. We provide a broad range of legal services in relation to patents and have substantial experience of:
- strategic co-ordination of national and multi-jurisdictional disputes concerning infringement and validity including advice on cross-border litigation strategies and choice of court
- opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and national patent offices as well as domestic invalidity actions
- inventorship and other disputes about the ownership of patents
- issues arising from inventions made by employees
- advice on patent protection strategies including licensing strategies
- all aspects of commercial transactions concerning patents: business acquisitions; technology transfer, research and development, joint ventures and technical co-operation, securitisation
- competition (anti-trust) issues involving patents (e.g. claims for compulsory licences and competition law defences in patent litigation)
- supplementary Protection Certificates for medicinal products and herbicides
- all IP related issues in the fields of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology including the interplay between patent law and the regulatory environment;
- patent clearance as part of foreign investment transactions in China.