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Your Trusted Partner for Intellectual Property Solutions
Dummett Copp is a firm of patent and trade mark attorneys established for over 30 years. We advise on all aspects of intellectual property to help clients protect ideas, enforce rights and add value to businesses. Our ethos focuses on providing clear, focused advice to save clients time and money. All attorneys are fully qualified with extensive industry or research experience, ensuring expert guidance tailored to specific technological and business needs. We prioritise understanding clients' sectors through IP audits, workplace visits and customised relationship management software. Our approachable team delivers responsive service, allowing clients to focus on their core operations while we handle intellectual property matters.With ten professional staff including four partners, we offer comprehensive expertise in both patents and trade marks. Our office in Martlesham Heath, Suffolk serves clients ranging from individual inventors to multinational corporations across the UK, USA, Japan and continental Europe. We maintain a client-centric philosophy, investing time to understand business needs before charging for services. This commitment to tailored solutions has sustained our reputation as trusted advisors in intellectual property law.
Services
Patents
Trade Marks
Designs
Copyright
Assignments and Licences
Renewals
Due Diligence
Virtual Patent Marking
Highlights and features
- We have over 30 years of experience in intellectual property law
- Our attorneys combine legal qualifications with industry expertise
- We provide tailored IP management software solutions
- We offer direct access to partner-level professionals
- We conduct regular IP audits and workplace visits
Associations and certifications
- IPReg
Services
Patents
We help protect technical innovations through patent registration. Our qualified attorneys advise on patentability, draft applications and manage global filings. With industry-specific expertise, we ensure robust protection for products, systems and manufacturing methods.
Trade Marks
We register and protect trade marks including words, logos and combined marks. Our services cover clearance searches, application processes and enforcement strategies. We help businesses safeguard their brand identity across multiple jurisdictions.
Designs
We protect visual designs of products through registered design rights. Our services cover shape configuration, surface patterns and ornamentation. We advise on both UK and international design registration strategies.
Renewals
We manage ongoing intellectual property renewals. Our formalities team tracks deadlines for patents, trade marks and designs. We ensure continued protection through timely payment of renewal fees across multiple jurisdictions.
Due Diligence
We conduct comprehensive IP audits and due diligence reviews. Our attorneys assess intellectual property portfolios for business transactions. We identify risks and opportunities in existing IP holdings during corporate acquisitions.
People
Nicholas Jackson
Partner Patent Attorney
Qualified patent attorney with extensive experience in engineering innovations. Specialises in drafting patent applications and managing global IP portfolios for technology companies.
Jacqueline Holmes
Partner Patent Attorney
Specialises in biotechnology patents with industry research background. Advises life sciences companies on IP strategy and patent protection across Europe and Asia.
Claire Freeman
Partner Head of Trade Marks
Trade mark specialist with focus on brand protection strategies. Manages international trade mark portfolios for retail and consumer goods companies across multiple jurisdictions.
Derek Holmes
Partner Patent Attorney
Experienced in mechanical engineering patents. Provides strategic IP advice to manufacturing firms, specialising in patent litigation and enforcement in UK courts.
Lewis Jones
Associate Trade Mark Attorney
Supports trade mark portfolio management with focus on digital brand protection. Advises on online enforcement strategies and domain name disputes.
Questions
What intellectual property services do you offer?
We provide patents, trade marks, designs, copyright protection, IP renewals and due diligence services for businesses of all sizes.
How do you handle international IP protection?
Our attorneys manage global IP filings through established networks in the USA, Japan, continental Europe and other jurisdictions.
What industries do you specialise in?
We work with clients across engineering, biotechnology, consumer goods and manufacturing sectors, combining legal and technical expertise.
How are your fees structured?
We provide transparent pricing tailored to each project, with no hidden costs. Partner-level attorneys handle all client matters directly.
Do you offer IP audits for businesses?
Yes, we conduct comprehensive IP audits to identify and protect intellectual property assets as part of our client relationship management.
Reviews (4)
Natalie Doble
Aug 16, 2021
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Challs International Ltd have been using Dummet Copp LLP's services for all our Trademark needs for a number of years. They offer a very reliable, efficient and professional service while being very personable. We have a great working relationship with a number of their employees and can always pick up the phone to ask for advice on any matter big or small. I would highly recommend them.
Philip Pittock
Aug 12, 2021
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Our company, Parma Industries, has been drawing on the expertise at Dummett Copp for over ten years. This has been mainly regarding registering and protecting our trademarks but also advice on patents. We have always valued and have come to rely on their guidance, advice and professionalism.
Ann Turner
Jul 11, 2021
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With our ever-growing portfolio of products, and recent change of Company name, Dummett Copp have been invaluable in ensuring our intellectual property rights are protected world-wide. We have worked closely with Lynn Harris and Claire Freeman on trademark matters, and Rob McLean on patent and registered designs; both have provided a very professional, efficient service and their attention to detail is exemplary. I would have no hesitation in recommending Dummett Copp LLP
Joseph F.
Jul 31, 2020
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Got an email which should gone straight into my junk, an empty threat really from some joker called "Lewis Jones", whom obviously doesn't know intellectual property like how he preaches! Specifically asked us to remove some products from our website because they are "infringing" on one of his clients rights, well news for you Lewis, if something ISN'T registered like a PATENT for a product than it isn't legally enforceable, his own client was using material which is in fact either a) in the open domain b) Crown copyright c) MOD property, this should have been made apparent to him although in future
