Forresters

Firm overview:

Forresters offers commercially-grounded advice on patent matters to an international client base.

The full-service IP firm has particular strengths in industries including life sciences, cleantech, engineering and automotive, working with clients ranging from lone inventors to multinational companies. Clients value its ability to turn complex scientific issues into practical patent strategies, while the team’s strength in European Patent Office (EPO) oppositions further reinforces its place among the top UK firms for patent work.

Team overview:

Andy Harding and Charlotte Teall are important figures within the firm’s patents offering, with particular strengths across engineering, advanced technologies, and life sciences. Harding focuses his practice on drafting and prosecuting patent and design applications in the UK, Europe and worldwide.

As well as patent prosecution, Teall represents clients before the EPO and assists them with securing supplementary protection certificate (SPC) protection.

Key matters:

• Carbon Clean: Patent prosecution and filing

Forresters has assisted Carbon Clean, an innovation leader in point source carbon capture, in securing patent protection for carbon capture solvent compositions and methods for carbon dioxide recovery.

• AbbVie: European patent prosecution

Amongst other areas, the team manages European patent prosecution matters related to AbbVie’s Rinvoq drug, which treats a variety of diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

• BiSN: Patent filing and prosecution

Forresters handles IP matters for downhole oil and gas company BiSN, which continues to expand its global operations, and has filed patent applications in key territories.

Clients:

AbbVie, BiSN, Brompton Bicycle, Carbon Clean, Cardiol Therapeutics, Sezanne Marine