Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
Our specialist teams cover a huge range of industries and technical fields, from automotive and aerospace and electronics and electrical engineering to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
At AA Thornton, we provide a comprehensive service offering to help you protect your Intellectual Property and maximise your assets. By combining the expertise of patent and trade mark attorneys, as well as solicitors within a single firm, we can offer you a customised comprehensive service.
Our clients range from multinational corporations, to SMEs, to individual inventors, across a broad spectrum of industries. Our client base is centred in the UK but covers many other parts of the globe, notably Europe, North America, India and the Far East. We also work for overseas attorneys and professional advisers, representing their clients’ Intellectual Property interests in the UK, Germany and Europe.
We’re delighted to announce that our Partner, Ian Gill, has been recognised as one of the small number of Band 1 UK Trade Mark Attorneys for 2024 by Chambers and Partners. Chambers and Partners is a leading legal directory that provides prestigious rankings for law firms and individual lawyers worldwide. Their annual rankings are based… Read more »
Managing IP have announced its 2024 Patent Stars and we are delighted to share that our partners Mike Jennings and Craig Turner have been recognised for their expertise in patents. Adding to our excitement, we are also proud to announce that our senior associates Suzanne Power and Sarah Neil have now been named Rising Stars… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that AA Thornton has achieved a Tier 2 ranking in the Patents and Trade Mark Attorneys category of the Legal 500 UK 2025. Additionally, the firm has been recognised as Tier 5 in both the Patents (contentious and non-contentious) and Trade Marks, copyright and design categories. We are particularly proud… Read more »
Pharmaceutical team member Suzanne Power provides a legal update of UK Trade Mark case law This article was published in the September 2024 issue of PTMG’s Law, Lore & Practice Whilst many in July were enjoying a well-earned summer break, the officials at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) were busy publishing… Read more »
As we move further into 2024, the UK IPO continues to demonstrate rigorous examination of trade mark applications. The first six months of the year have seen a string of refusals, particularly concerning attempts to register emblems that hold protected status. In this instalment, we continue to explore these cases, offering a closer look at… Read more »
International patent applications filed using the Patent Cooperation Treaty (‘PCT’) framework allow applicants to select the contracting states of interest for national and/or regional phase applications. The deadline to file an application in any specific country or region is usually 30 or 31 months from the application’s priority date. The deadline for specific countries and… Read more »
