Company Overview
Marks & Clerk is a leading international intellectual property (IP) firm, providing comprehensive IP services to businesses of all sizes worldwide. With over 300 attorneys across 15 offices in Europe, Asia, and North America, the firm helps clients achieve their ambitions through expert IP management.
Marks & Clerk’s depth of expertise, underpinned by robust processes, enables the firm to select the right team tailored to exactly reflect the needs, ambitions, specialism and culture of its clients. Recognised by IAM, Managing IP, WTR, IP Stars, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, and The Times as a leading international IP firm with over 100 ranked partners, principals, and associates across its office network.
Mission Statement
At Marks & Clerk, we are passionate about innovation and progress. We work with clients across a wide range of industries, from global enterprises to pioneering startups and strategic investors. With deep expertise in science, technology, and intellectual property, we help turn ideas into commercial success. Our commitment is to support our clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate opportunities and challenges in an evolving world.
Services Offered
As specialists focused exclusively on IP, our services include:
Patent and trade mark prosecution
IP strategy and portfolio management
IP litigation, dispute resolution and oppositions
IP due diligence and commercialisation
Start-ups
We are keenly aware of the challenges facing tech start-ups in the space sector. In response, we have developed a service package specifically for innovative young companies. The package is tailored for each candidate following a straight-forward application process. Typically, successful applicants can expect discounted and fixed pricing, as well as flexible payment plans to help manage initial costs. In addition, we offer a range of added value benefits to help space start-ups navigate the complexities of IP and leverage its value to achieve growth.
More information on the package and details on how to apply can be found here: Start-up with Marks & Clerk.
Key Contacts
Phil Merchant
Principal, Chartered (UK) and European Patent Attorney
+44 20 7420 0032
Sarah Taylor
Clients & Markets Executive
+44 121 634 2348
Involvement in the Space Sector
Marks & Clerk is proud to have a dedicated space tech team comprising of patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys and solicitors. Our team includes experts across a wide range of technical disciplines, from engineering and physics to quantum technologies and computer science.
Over the last few years, our space tech team have immersed themselves in the UK and international space sector. We regularly engage with regional space clusters, as well as members and suppliers across the industry, to facilitate connections and educate companies of all sizes to understand the importance of IP to building a successful business.
Our continuing engagement helps us understand the issues and challenges that firms face in the industry and provide targeted and up-to-date advice on IP-specific issues that evolve alongside the sector. Our aim is to help companies of all sizes understand the value and importance of IP. With this understanding, and us providing dedicated, expert services, Marks & Clerk provides a valuable contribution to this exciting and highly valuable sector of the UK economy, doing our small part to aid in its growth.
Recent examples of support given to the space sector by members of our space tech team include:
Speaking at various space events across the UK
Delivering IP webinars to space clusters
Hosting IP ‘drop in’ sessions and events for space accelerator programmes
Providing IP support for companies taking part in the Aqualunar Challenge (competition run by the UK and Canadian Space Agencies with £1.2m prize fund)
Company Culture and Values
Our vision is to continue to be a leading provider of IP services by putting our people and clients at the heart of everything we do and delivering excellence as a minimum. We have translated our vision into four core values – trust, collegiality, resourcefulness and excellence – and our goal is to live these values through everything we do.
What are clients say
“The Marks & Clerk team are able to absorb and assimilate complex technical ideas and translate them into patents, and take clients through the entire patent process. The collective skill set covers both technical and non-technical aspects of patenting in technology and knowledge-based industries. With them, there are no delays, no errors, no failures!”
Chambers & Partners, 2024
“The breadth of knowledge and technical understanding demonstrated by the firm’s team of patent attorneys is at a consistently high level.”
Legal 500, 2024
Future Collaboration with Space Network
We envision working with the Space Network and the other partners to provide comprehensive business support services to the space network. IP is an integral part of a business’ growth strategy to ensure commercial success and we aim to assist the Space Network in providing bespoke and high quality advice.
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Website Links
Main Website: https://www.marks-clerk.com
Services Page: https://www.marks-clerk.com/expertise/sectors/space-technology/
Contact Page: https://www.marks-clerk.com/contact-us/