Our Team’s track record encompasses the most technically complex cases before the EPO, include oppositions and appeals, as well as arguing cases at the USPTO.

Our Team has a wealth of patent experience across all telecommunications and IT technologies: from wireless to wireline, speech, data, mobile, infrastructure, data processing, satellite technologies, RF and all fields in between. Our Team has wide-ranging technical and legal knowledge, combined with many years of extensive and practical experience in developing valuable telecommunications portfolios of our clients. We work very closely with our clients’ business, engineering and Standards Teams to ensure that our clients achieve the maximum possible protection for their inventions, using excellent commercial and technical knowledge and judgement of our Attorneys. Such skill sets are a pre-requisite for clients who need to achieve valuable protection in these fields. Our proven track record has enabled many of our clients to obtain numerous Standards’ essential patents in, for example, GSM, EDGE, 4G/LTE, 5G, DVB, SDRAM, etc. As a consequence, clients entrust us with challenging cases that are crucial to their global portfolio management, licensing and litigation strategies.

Having an in-depth understanding of the various technologies of our clients and being able to communicate with inventors on their level, is critical to obtaining the maximum protection of our clients’ assets in such a competitive sector. We recruit the best technical specialists, with a wealth of patent drafting and prosecution experience to complement our clients’ in-house technology teams. We readily adapt our modus operandi to work with inventors, in-house patent counsel, outside patent counsel to maximise the scope of protection for our clients.

Our focus is to add value at each stage of the patent process, from patent drafting through prosecution to grant, and potentially beyond through Oppositions and Appeals. Our continued success in EPO Opposition proceedings means that we are regularly requested to take over new, problematic cases of our clients, when they are faced with contentious proceedings on their most complex patents. We are dedicated to obtain the maximum potential protection for our clients, and we are belligerent in resolving patent disputes with Patent Examiners/Offices, when appropriate. However, we are also renowned and appreciated amongst our clients for straightforward and honest advice on when to save costs and energy, due to an appreciation of the realities of what can be achieved within the limits, budget and established commercial sensitivities across the client’s engineering sector.

With particular experience in semiconductor memories, processor technology, NFC, radar technology and sensors, radio frequency circuits and components, etc., we are requested to handle the most complex and important of our clients’ technologies. Our proven track record in converting cases that Optimus Attorneys have drafted and prosecuted to grant (c.90%+), as well as prosecuting cases to grant that were drafted by other Attorneys (c.80%+) is exemplary and unrivalled.

Optimus’ team is now firmly entrenched in our clients’ IP decision making and portfolio management. Optimus sets up bespoke patent processes and reports for our clients, in order to guide our clients through the patent maze. Such SME clients rely on Optimus to deliver a World-class service across all aspects of the patent process … and we deliver.

Our SME clients require substantial value from their IP and developing patent portfolio, in order to attract investment, build up value in their business and also enable them to operate in a rapidly changing technology space. Optimus is able to provide our clients with this ‘security’, through our experience and remarkable track record in achieving valuable patent portfolios. This allows our clients to focus on what they do best – engineering and research to extend the boundaries of their technology sphere.

The legal framework and case law with regard to obtaining software-based patents, in the US, Europe, the UK and many other jurisdictions, is complex. Patent Offices are continually reluctant to grant patents in this area. However, with carefully crafted patent specifications and thorough and convincing arguments based on current case law and a vast amount of experience, it is possible for Optimus’ first-class Attorney Team to circumvent such problems.

We also participate in technical conferences in various rapidly growing segments of renewable energy.Renewable energy expenditure is growing very rapidly in the UK, Europe and the USA, with many systems already being economically viable without ‘feed-in’ tariffs or other subsidies. This is the time in the development of any technology when there are huge opportunities to gain patent protection for fundamental breakthroughs. Many solutions are now being developed that enable more reliable, and ever more cost-effective, renewable energy generation, conversion and storage. It is a great time to be applying for patents in these technology areas.