Maucher Jenkins

Maucher Jenkins has offices in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and China, and represents global clients across a wide range of industries seeking to identify, establish, protect, exploit, and enforce their intellectual property rights in the UK, Europe, and worldwide. The firm assists businesses in gaining a competitive edge by safeguarding and enhancing their intellectual property, with a focus on protecting clients’ inventions, innovations, and brands. Its expertise and reputation extend internationally, covering industries such as IT and communications, electrical and mechanical engineering, aviation, life sciences and medical technologies, manufacturing, media, financial services, and consumer products.

The patent team’s services include conducting innovation capture sessions, preliminary investigations, and due diligence; drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications before the UK IPO and European Patent Office; conducting infringement searches; defending and pursuing patent infringement claims; managing and evaluating patent portfolios; monitoring competitors’ portfolios; and advising on worldwide patent protection. The trade mark team advises on the registrability of brand names and logos, conducts searches for potentially conflicting third-party rights, prosecutes trade mark applications, and represents clients in disputes. The firm also advises on domain name registration, copyright law, and cyber squatting issues.

Maucher Jenkins provides design protection for innovative product shapes, identifies copyright and registrable or unregistered design matters, and advises on actions against copyright infringement, including seizure and detention of infringing goods. Its litigation practice handles disputes in the English Courts and manages multi-jurisdictional cases in Europe and beyond, covering trade marks, passing off, patents, designs, domain names, and company names. The firm also handles appeals in registration and contentious matters for UK and European trade marks, patents, and designs, including before the High Court, the Unified Patent Court, the General Court, and the Court of Justice. For smaller disputes, the firm represents clients in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC).

Maucher Jenkins® is the joint trading name of RGC Jenkins & Co in the UK (regulated by IPReg) and Maucher Jenkins Patentanwälte & Rechtsanwälte in Germany. Its offices are located in Farnham, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Munich, Freiburg, Kulmbach, Basel, Beijing, and Shenzhen.

Languages: German, French, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean
Staffing: 10 UK partners; 21 other UK fee-earners