Over six-hundred non-U.K. lawyers and law firms from approximately eighty countries trust Appleyard Lees to help their clients secure U.K. and European IP rights.
Our non-UK peers choose us to manage their clients’ important IP matters, because of our longstanding reputation as a reliable, responsive U.K./European IP firm, with deep technical knowledge across a breadth of scientific and legal subject matter areas.
We deliver a seamless experience to all clients, wherever they are in the world. Some of our relationships with non-U.K. attorneys span several decades.
We attend all major international IP conferences, including INTA, Marques, FICPI, AIPLA, AUTM, PTMG, ECGTA, APAA, IPO, AIOPPI and LES, where we meet with our international contacts. We are recognised for excellence by all major U.K. legal industry analysts.
Our clients
A global electronics company and the fourth largest patent filer at the EPO
The third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world
A biopharmaceutical company developing potent, multi-functional, novel differentiated medicines
Europe's leading research-intensive universities
A global, household name in innovative beauty technologies
Quantum physics innovation company leading the development of technologies in the sector
A clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing antibody therapeutics
An AIM (Alternative Investments Market) listed developer of targeted cancer therapies
A pioneering university spin-out company in the cultivated meat industry
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