IP Litigation

Building the right team for the right occasion

We fully understand that litigation, whether offensive or defensive, is unwelcome for most clients but not always avoidable. During such stressful times, our experiences and approach look to provide both support and perceptive solutions that minimise your costs whilst achieving results. 

The team at Hepworth Browne has years of experience in both driving and supporting appropriate UK national and international IP court actions, including litigation as well as other contentious proceedings such as customs seizures, corroborative police actions, unfair competition actions, evidence seizures, and the abuse of trade secret by former employees.

Historical successes by our attorneys have established precedent-setting legal standards, whilst current appeal work in cutting-edge technologies is raising fundamental questions about statute defined exclusions to patentability. In developing technical fields including Artificial Intelligence “AI”, our involvement and results place us in the vanguard of available experts.

Our experiences span the world, with our partners being intricately involved in cases before the IPEC and High Courts of the UK as well as multiple judicial levels at international organisations and national courts, including the EPO and court instances to Constitutional Court level in Germany and second instance appeal levels in Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Spain, the USA, Australia and elsewhere.