Pearl Cohen is an international law firm with offices in London, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv. Our London IP group focuses exclusively on patent & trademark prosecution. The team includes Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, and Solicitors specialising in patent and trademark law. The London patents group members span between them the entire gamut of technical fields: Physics, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Software, Pharmaceuticals, and Chemistry. We specialise in cross-border patent prosecution and work closely with our overseas offices to provide our clients with truly international legal advice on patent matters.
Our patents group provides the strategic vision, creative support, and professional guidance needed to successfully protect and promote our clients’ inventions and ideas.
With over 55 experienced patent attorneys and agents authorised to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO), the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and the Israeli Patent Office (IPO), and relationships with leading intellectual property firms around the globe, Pearl Cohen helps clients obtain worldwide patent protection. Our clients regularly depend on our reputation for providing innovative and strategic international patent strategies to protect their inventions and commercial products and services, and they benefit greatly from the synergy between our related practice areas, including intellectual property and business law, to acquire, sell, or license patents.
Our patent expertise is enhanced by a significant support staff of scientific advisors. Many of our patent attorneys, patent agents and all of our scientific advisors have advanced degrees from the world’s top academic institutions, as well as practical, hands-on laboratory knowledge or industrial experience.
Our global patents group offers complete services that include:
- Drafting, filing, and prosecution of patent applications
- Filing International patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), including filing of Regional and National Phase applications
- Analysis of prior art, patents, and patent applications, for both offensive and defensive purposes
- Counselling and opinion practice, including preparing legal opinions regarding patentability, infringement, freedom to operate, enforceability of patents and competitive analysis
- Oppositions, Re-examinations, inter partes review, and post grant oppositions
- Patent portfolio management, development, analysis, augmentation, commercialization, and litigation
- Patent licensing and transactional practice for collaborations, private placements, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions
- Co-counselling patent litigation at the Unified Patent Court
Related strategic services that we provide include:
- Counselling and advising inventors, investors, and patentees
- Advising clients on funding and structuring their new business ventures based on their IP, as well as, approaching industrial leaders to form partnerships and explore new business opportunities
- Aiding manufacturers in the design of non-infringing, competitive products
- Advising clients regarding licenses, patent sales, assignments, and other ownership-related issues
- Patent-related litigation, including patent enforcement to assert our clients’ patent rights against infringers, and patent defence to defend our clients from allegations of infringement and unwarranted harassment