D Young & Co LLP Company Profile

D Young & Co is one of the principal European intellectual property firms specialising exclusively in the creation and protection of patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and related intellectual property rights.

D Young & Co understands the value of the ideas on which businesses are based. Our experienced team works with you to protect, manage and enforce the intellectual property that underpins your business.

Our detailed understanding of your company’s needs comes from personal contact, teamwork and commercial experience. The technical skills and knowledge of our expert advisors are matched with your specific requirements. We work closely with our clients in order to offer a consistently high quality service and to maximise the value of their IP investment. In this way we have developed long-term relationships with organisations of all sizes, located around the world.

D Young & Co has been recognized by Legal 500 for its impeccable track record in the provision of client focused IP advice, and was rated as a top-tier firm in all three patent and trade mark categories in 2010: Clients said that D Young & Co was: ‘consistently excellent’, ‘very customer focused’, ‘flexible’ with ‘depth of expertise… business acumen and industry knowledge’.

Patent Services

D Young & Co has one of the largest patent teams in Europe with over 40 qualified patent attorneys. We offer a comprehensive patent service including:

• Patent drafting in all relevant jurisdictions
• Filing and prosecuting patent applications directly at the UK Intellectual Property Office and European Patent Office and worldwide via our network of trusted overseas agents
• Representing clients at all levels within the European Patent Office including oppositions and appeals
• Portfolio audit and strategic advice
• Search and watching
• Renewals
• Infringement and validity opinions
• Co-ordinating litigation in the UK and internationally
• Due diligence work for funding, stock market flotation, business or project acquisition
• Supporting license negotiations and the exploitation of IP rights for revenue opportunities

Electronics, Engineering & IT Expertise

The firm’s patent practice is divided into two main work groups: the Biotechnology, Chemistry & Pharmaceuticals Group and the Electronics, Engineering & IT Group. With regard to Electronics, Engineering & IT, our patent attorneys are highly qualified in a wide range of technological fields and can deal with a wide range of subject matter including:

• Computer Technology (e.g., bioinformatics, computer architecture, applications and entertainment, information technology, internet and web systems, networks, routers and software).
• Electronic Engineering (e.g., analogue electronics, audio and video electronics, digital electronics, display technologies, medical electronics and imaging, mobile radio communications, optical electronics, photography, robotics, signal and image processing, switch technology, telecommunications, television systems and wireless technology).
• Electrical Engineering (e.g., battery technology, power systems and energy services).
• Mechanical Engineering (e.g., aerodynamics, aeronautical engineering, automotive engineering, control engineering, domestic appliances, engine components, heating technology, hydraulics, marine technology, medical devices, nuclear engineering, printing, pumps, rail engineering and refrigeration).
• Physics (astrophysics, crystallography, geophysics, instrumentation, material science nanotechnology, nuclear physics, oceanography, optical physics and lasers, semiconductor fabrication and physics, space science, spectroscopy and thermodynamics.

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