Technical Expertise

When it comes to protecting and defending inventions in complex technologies, we are specialists. Our attorneys can be found advising some of the world’s leading companies in our key areas of expertise. Our team of highly skilled attorneys includes doctorates and chartered engineers with in depth knowledge in their areas of technical expertise. We also have extensive experience of the R&D process. This gives us both strong technical and commercial foundations from which to deliver patent protection and advice for your technology. So whether you have developed an improvement to an existing technology or you are working at the cutting edge of your field, you can be confident that we will understand what you are talking about.

Our areas of expertise:

Aerospace

aeroengine technology; radar systems and rad signal processing; aerofoils including wings and compressor blades; headup displays; unmanned aerial vehicles; software.

Electronics

solid-state devices; components and connectors; control devices; microprocessors; alarms; sensors; signal conditioning and processing apparatus; control software.

Materials Science

building products; gypsum based products; mechanical properties of materials; ceramics; cement; manufacturing processes.

Oil & Gas

pipelines and risers; flow sensors; metering; pipeline structural monitoring; flow management systems. 

Optics & Photonics

laser systems; fibre fabrication; sensors; imaging systems; holographic devices; optoelectronic devices; bulk optic and fibre components; optical signal processing.

Telecommunications

fixed line; wireless; mobile; optical backbone; access networks; systems and system components; modems; routers; system management; routing and control software.