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About Schlich

Schlich is a boutique firm of European Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys based in the South of England. Since 2004, we’ve helped our clients defend their business assets from competitors, helping them to build and grow successful businesses based on IP assets.

Patents, Trade Marks and Designs

The Schlich Team

Our UK and European Patent Attorneys and Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys have degrees and PhDs from top UK Universities, but are additionally qualified by experience at the coal face of cutting edge, and critically commercial, technologies.

We build on our experience of prosecution and inter partes proceedings to give the best strategic and practical advice, to get the best value patent and trade mark protection for our clients’ innovations. Our team does this efficiently and in a friendly and digestible manner, supported by a wider team of highly skilled and experienced legal support staff.

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Our Purpose

Our purpose is to secure and protect our clients' IP interests and deploy them against competitors, by providing the right expertise and knowledge in an effective commercial manner. Our aim is to assist our clients to gain an advantage over their competitors with valid IP rights that can survive challenge.

PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND INTER PARTES

HOW WE HELP BUSINESSES

We enhance business value by helping to acquire IP rights that are used to stop competition or to generate income by out-licensing. Our services ensure clients go out into the “IP jungle”, well protected.

We draft and file patent applications, then get patents granted, we prepare and file applications to register trade marks, taking them to registration and enforce our clients’ rights through inter partes proceedings.

Schlich works with a wide variety of clients ranging from multi-national corporations to SMEs and individual inventors in the UK and around the world. Technically, we are a mix of chemists, biochemists, geneticists and technology experts with Patent and Trade Mark qualifications and extensive subject experience.

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A flexible, agile and dynamic team on the south coast

PROCESSES, OPERATION & CULTURE

We have a comprehensive structured training program that extends across the whole firm, and not just for the attorneys. With high staff retention rates and relevant experience, this means that, at all levels, Schlich’s service and advice is always of extremely high quality.

Ongoing professional training, in-house tutorials, monthly professional update meetings alongside our teamwork make the Schlich team a cohesive and dynamic unit of professionals.

Our systems have won us awards for staff training from local business associations.

AWARD WINNING EDUCATION

TRAINING AND our goal of CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

We have a structured training process that extends across the whole firm, not just for the attorneys. With high staff retention and significant experience, this means that at all levels, Schlich’s output is of extremely high quality.

Ongoing professional training, in-house tutorials, our monthly professional update meetings alongside our teamwork make the Schlich team a cohesive unit of professionals.

Our processes have won us awards for staff training from local business associations.

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WE’RE A 2004 “START-UP”

HISTORY OF SCHLICH

Teamwork and collaboration

SEAMLESSLY WORKING TOGETHER

Teamwork and collaboration across our firm is essential to deliver the quality of service and value our clients expect. We thrive on working together as a cohesive team and our clients do too, so much so that most clients continue to work with us for the long term.

When a Schlich attorney provides advice, he or she is supported by the whole team, assisting them to deliver a top quality service. Our ethos of sharing knowledge and experience means our clients are always supported by the whole firm. For example, in inter partes proceedings it is essential for everyone on the team to play their role and work together to deliver the desired result.

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WE'RE A GROWING and inclusive BUSINESS

Join our Team

We have a supportive, friendly, family atmosphere, both pastorally and professionally. With a flat hierarchical structure, our team works closely together at all levels, leading to high staff and attorney retention rates.

A hybrid working strategy enables staff to work seamlessly from the office or from remote locations, and we are committed to ongoing staff training at all levels.

We strongly encourage a sensible work / life balance and do not expect people to work more than their contracted hours. 

Latest Firm News

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Schlich walks to the EPO!

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