Slingsby Partners Recommended in Chambers UK Guide 2024

Slingsby Partners is delighted to be recommended in Chambers & Partners UK Guide to Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys. The guide has the following to say about our firm: “Slingsby Partners has a celebrated patent practice especially in the fields of engineering and electronics technology.” Philip Slingsby is listed as a notable practitioner. 

We thank the (anonymous) clients who provided Chambers with the following feedback:

"The team at Slingsby Partners has excellent capabilities."

"Slingsby Partners has a hard-working, detail-oriented, strategic and responsive team."

"They strike a wonderful balance between being professional, efficient and friendly. They are good at breaking down complicated processes for me to understand clearly. They understand the company's situation and are very efficient."

News & insights

New Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) expected concerning the approach to claim interpretation

The long running saga of if, how and when the description can or should be used to interpret the claims of an EP patent may well be coming to a close.

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Slingsby Partners attends a networking event at the University of Bath Law Society

Slingsby Partners has been a sponsor of the University of Bath Law Society for the last three years. As part of this sponsorship arrangement, we attended a networking event hosted by the Society on 19 March 2024. Ollie, Verity and Charlotte attended, along with representatives from other law firms and law schools – Allen & Overy, Stone King and The College of Legal Practice.

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EPO to increase official fees from 1 April 2024

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced in the January issue of the EPO Journal that the official fee schedule for European patents will be revised from 1 April 2024, resulting in an increase of roughly 4% on most fees. Full details of the fees can be found here: Official Journal, 2024 (epo.org)

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