Chartered Patent Attorneys

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As the leading UK and European partnership of patent and trade mark attorneys, the firm has a long history of providing intellectual property (IP) advice from its extensive UK and overseas offices. Our size enables us to provide a full range of IP services as well as having specialisms in most areas of advanced technology. Our clients are a wide spectrum of national and multinational organisations.

What we can offer
Each year we look to recruit a small group of trainees, based around our various UK locations who will have the opportunity to train as patent or trade mark attorneys. Whilst both professions are relatively small they attract many high quality candidates who are looking for alternative scientific or legal careers. We have resources dedicated to training candidates in both professional and managerial skills as well as using external training resources.

What we are looking for
As a trainee patent attorney you will be expected to have gained at least a 2.1 degree in a scientific, engineering or IT based subject in particular Physics or Electronics graduates. We welcome applications from those completing a Doctorate or who are undertaking post graduate research.

We are not only looking for technical excellence in your chosen field but also for trainees who have an interest in the commercial world and who understand the context and importance of intellectual property to their clients.

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Further Details

No. of employees
340
No. of partners
74
No. of qualified chartered patent agents
84
No. of qualified trade mark agents
29
No. of trainee chartered patent agents
40
No. of trainee trade mark agents
5
Locations
Birmingham, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Oxford
International opportunities
Yes
Work experience offered
Yes
No. of graduate vacancies
6–8
Disciplines recruited from
Scientific, engineering or IT based subjects