Mewburn Ellis LLP

Mewburn Ellis is the forward-looking European IP firm.  We are a business that puts our clients, our people, and our values at the heart of everything we do.  It is what we believe makes us stand out in the IP community.  We’re passionate about our clients and their businesses and how IP can help them achieve their goals and make a real difference to the world in which we live.  We work with our clients as trusted advisors sharing their journey and playing a positive role.  It’s important to us that our recommendations are relevant.

The firm continues to grow, and we are now over 360 strong. Currently we have 53 partners and IP directors, over 100 qualified patent and trade mark attorneys, solicitors and IP litigators, 42 trainees, as well as an enthusiastic and highly motivated IP & business services team. Our experts are spread throughout our five offices in Europe - London, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge, and Munich - we work at all stages of the IP life cycle and advise about patent, trade mark and registered designs, as well as any IP-related disputes and legal and commercial requirements.  Our technical expertise spans the entire chemistry, materials, engineering, ICT, and life sciences fields. Our trade mark attorneys understand brands, their power and their importance and are the European trade mark attorneys of choice for a wide range of clients, from sole traders to well-known corporate clients as well as many high-ranking UK and foreign law firms.  Our specialist IP lawyers work closely and seamlessly with our attorneys building multidisciplinary teams in order to leverage their exceptional technical know-how and to co-ordinate IP transaction and dispute resolution services. All our advice and support is given with a high degree of commercial understanding and pragmatism.

We are renowned in the profession for our successful track record in high value, complex and multi-party oppositions at the EPO. We have an exceptional track record at defending patents we have drafted and prosecuted ourselves. Our success rate in patent oppositions is so revered that companies often transfer responsibility for defending their patents to us during opposition even when we were not responsible for the original drafting or prosecuting the case.

Flexible in the way we work, we listen to our clients and adapt to fit their commercial objectives ensuring we are effective and efficient partners. Always client focused we deliver practical solutions designed to address whatever opportunity or challenge they face. We adapt and build multidisciplinary teams based on our client’s specific needs, harnessing the unique combination of IP expertise that we possess across the firm to provide a unified approach and maximum benefit to our clients.  More than a third of our clients have worked with us for over 20 years.

Mewburn Ellis is leading the way, embracing change and growth, doing it well and with a focus on high quality.  We have applied these same principles to inclusion and diversity (I&D) and sustainability.  We are committed to not only evolving our own firm but helping to transform the IP industry. We have been awarded a Silver medal two years in a row by EcoVadis, the sustainability ratings agency - which also assesses diversity initiatives and commitments.  We are proud to say that this puts us in the top 25% of the 90,000 companies worldwide that have achieved the rating and the top 19% in the legal and accounting industry. We were the first IP firm with a presence in the UK to be awarded a silver medal.