No matter the size or nature of your business a strategic approach to protecting your ideas is essential. D Young & Co offers a comprehensive patent service, including:

• Patent drafting in all relevant jurisdictions
• Filing and prosecuting patent applications directly at the UKIPO and European Patent Office and world-wide via our network of trusted overseas agents
• Representing clients at all levels within the European Patent Office including oppositions, appeals and two recent referrals to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
• Portfolio audit and IP strategy advice
• Search and watching
• Renewals
• Infringement and Validity Opinions
• Coordinating litigation in the UK and Internationally
• Due diligence work for funding, stock market flotation, business or project acquisition
• Supporting licence negotiations and the exploitation of IP rights for revenue opportunities

We are delighted to announce that the D Young & Co Patent Group was ranked top tier by Legal 500 2010 and referred to as a "'consistently excellent' patents team".  The Legal 500 also writes that "D Young & Co is a first tier firm.  The firm at D Young & Co LLP is 'consistently excellent' and is 'very customer focused', and its 'business acumen and industry knowledge of the patent attorney landscape is very impressive'." (Legal 500 2010).  We are proud to have been awarded the MIP UK Patent Prosecution Firm of the year (2009) and consistently feature as leading UK patent attorneys in the 'MIP Expert Guide to the Leading Patent Law Practitioners'.