Your challenges
The NHS demands innovation to deliver world class commissioning. We have seen this in IT implementations such as Connecting for Health (see our IT – health page), cutting edge technologies, new medicines and improved organisational processes. Maximising the value and opportunity of these developments can only be achieved through understanding the risks and commercial benefits of good intellectual property management.
Achieving your ambitions
Our clients, such as the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the “innovation hubs”, understand the importance of harnessing new technologies and seeking opportunities for exploiting their own ideas – “generating wealth for better health".
We have helped through advising on commercial arrangements with partner organisations, licensing deals and projects to improve the management of intellectual property assets, from copyright in documents and training materials to patented devices. We have also worked on knotty problems around the protection of algorithms and decision aids.
The strength you need
We are top tier legal advisers to the health sector. In addition to the NHS Institute and a number of innovation hubs, our clients include over 100 NHS trusts, the Department of Health, NHSBT, NHS PASA and NHS Direct. We also have a substantial team of experienced intellectual property lawyers used to working with healthcare clients, including experts in intellectual property transactions, intellectual property disputes and branding.
Lawyers you can trust
Chambers UK confirms that our firm “continues to elicit praise from its peers in the healthcare market”. Alasdair Poore, Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and a partner in our intellectual property team, is described by Legal 500 as an “exceptional communicator with great expertise and experience”.