Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm, with approximately eighty patent and trade mark attorneys and specialist IP transactional solicitors and litigators.
Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.
We bring broad sector and industry knowledge. Our clients benefit from our professionals’ deep insights into their businesses, operations and objectives.
Our team offers a full spectrum of IP services, including initial strategy and scoping, prosecution, and post-grant support, should disputes or other issues arise. Our commercially intelligent approach to service delivery incorporates flexibility and adaptability. We strive to be agile, to respond to specific client requirements in a way that suits them.
Working with some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies and household names, the firm supports a broad range of IP owners and creators, including in-house teams, R&D specialists, owner-managers and branding professionals.
With offices in UK innovation hotspots, we are positioned to give clients expert strategic IP advice in the UK and worldwide.
The firm adopts a collegiate ethos, encouraging our professionals to fully understand each client, and to establish critical relationships of trust.