Chartered Patent Attorneys

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Firm history and structure
Founded in 1884, the firm has grown steadily in recent years. It is now a group of limited liability partnerships, of which Withers & Rogers LLP, the professional practice, is the largest. The firm is based in four offices: London, Bristol, the Midlands and Sheffield. We operate in four principal practice groups: Electronics, Computing & Physics; Advanced Engineering; Life Sciences & Chemistry; and Trade Marks, which are represented across all of the offices. We also have a number of specialist practice groups including Higher Education, Clean Technology, Medical Devices and Aerospace & Defence.

Range of client services
We offer clients a full range of intellectual property services. Filing patents and trade marks is our core business, but registered design, design right, copyright, domain name registration and enforcement, due diligence and licensing work is also undertaken.

Professional development
The firm has a structured career development process to provide a balanced approach that is designed to produce well-rounded patent and trade mark attorneys. Trainees are usually assigned to one partner specialising in their practice area, but will work with other attorneys as well.

The firm runs an in house training programme. Our tutorial system is particularly extensive, with a programme of up to 32 tutorials each year, from which regular, structured feedback is provided. The firm also provides extensive practical training, including on its bespoke case management system and digital dictation system, and extensive printed and electronic manuals and reference materials are available.

We encourage trainees to attend appropriate external courses. There are further opportunities for training after qualification, for example, to achieve the LLM at Nottingham Law School to become a patent attorney Litigator. In house German and Japanese training is provided as required.

We also get trainees involved meeting clients and in the marketing process very early on, and encourage membership of networking organisations.

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No. of employees
123
No. of partners
27
No. of qualified trade mark attorneys
4
No. of trainee chartered patent attorneys
16
No. of trainee trade mark attorneys
2
Locations
Bristol, London, Midlands and Sheffield
Work experience offered
No
No. of graduate vacancies
2
Disciplines recruited from
All

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