Mewburn Ellis

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Mewburn Ellis
Headquarters London
No. of offices5
Offices London, Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester, Munich
No. of attorneys109
No. of employees352
Major practice areas Intellectual Property
Key peopleRichard Clegg
(Managing Partner)
Date founded1867
FounderJohn Clayton Mewburn
Company type Limited liability partnership
Website www.mewburn.com

Mewburn Ellis LLP is a European intellectual property law firm. It is one of the UK's largest firms [1] [2] of Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, European Trade Mark Attorneys and European Design Attorneys, with offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge and Munich.

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It has around 100 qualified patent and trade mark attorneys, including 49 partners.

The firm's main practice areas include chemistry, electronics, computing, telecommunications, mechanical engineering and trade marks as well as a large biotechnology and pharmaceutical practice. The firm also undertakes work in areas such as nanotechnology, medical technology, agricultural science and transport.

Mewburn Ellis LLP is ranked as first tier in the Legal 500 directory for patent practice [3] and is featured in the Chambers directory. [1]

History

The firm of Mewburn Ellis LLP has its roots in the partnership of John Clayton Mewburn and George Beloe Ellis which was formed in the 1860s under the name of Mewburn Ellis & Co. John Mewburn Clayton was a signatory of the Royal Charter granted to the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys in 1891. [4] Since that time, six members of the Ellis family have been partners in the firm, including George Ellis's daughter, Margaret Dixon, who was the first woman to practise as a UK patent agent. The last of the Ellis family to work in the firm retired in 1988, although the firm still bears the name of the founding partners. [5]

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Publications and articles

Patent attorneys from Mewburn Ellis have featured in various news articles about Green IP, [6] including in national newspapers such as The Independent [7] [8] and The Times [9] [10] as well as written blogs and forward features. [11]

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  2. ↑ http://www.insidecareers.co.uk/__802574D80055D469.nsf/id/7jbkqttden!opendocument. Viewed 8 March 2009
  3. ↑ "PATMA: Patent attorneys in London | Law firm and lawyer rankings from the Legal 500 United Kingdom - Solicitors guide".
  4. ↑ "The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys - CIPA - About - true". Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.. Viewed on 13 December 2007
  5. ↑ http://www.mewburn.com/about-us/our-history/. Viewed on 11 August 2016
  6. ↑ "Green IP article". Worldipreview. mewburn.com. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Patent attorney: Recreate yourself as a master of inventions". The Independent. 27 September 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  8. ↑ "Why PhD graduates are opting for a life in the fast lane". The Independent. 21 September 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Ames, Jonathan (5 July 2023). "Firms clamour to stress green credentials before Cop26". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Viewed on 8 September 2011
  11. ↑ LLP, Mewburn Ellis. "Forward". www.mewburn.com. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
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