Carpmaels & Ransford is one of Europe’s largest IP firms, known for providing cutting-edge IP advice to innovators, with a key focus on healthcare. We are experts in EPO opposition, strategic prosecution, Unified Patent Court actions, and in UK and pan-European patent and SPC litigation. We have a very long history of supporting innovation, both for our clients and within the IP industry itself. Next year we celebrate the firm’s 250th anniversary.
We offer a truly integrated team of litigators and patent attorneys. Our UK qualified litigators, European litigators (German and Dutch qualified) and patent attorneys are members of the same firm, and we work together in hybrid, cross-practice teams ensuring the full and proactive management of clients’ patent portfolios from prosecution, and opposition to litigation. The firm has the largest and most effective UPC team in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe. We led the first successful revocation action to be filed before the Central Division of the UPC, and since then, we have been instructed on UPC preliminary injunction cases, the first change of language dispute in the UPC and the first UPC case concerning SPCs.