Patent and Trademark Protection for Pharmaceutical Companies and Universities
Our team of expert attorneys has extensive experience working with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and emerging biotech firms. We specialise in helping these organisations protect their formulations and technical advancements through patents and trademarks. Our expertise also includes conducting due diligence, performing patent landscape searches, safeguarding branding, and analysing competitors’ IP portfolios. This ensures that our clients—whether multinational corporations, universities, or smaller pharmaceutical enterprises—can confidently bring their products to market worldwide.
Our attorneys have a deep understanding of a broad range of technologies within these sectors. This includes pharmaceutical formulations, bulk chemicals, aviation fuels, mixed fuel systems, cosmetic and sun protection formulations, and domestic cleaning product formulations. We also have expertise in soluble sachets, drug delivery systems, industrial chemicals, agrochemicals, and large-scale industrial scaling and polishing systems.
Whether you are a global corporation, a research-focused university, or a growing pharmaceutical company, Bailey Walsh & Co. LLP is here to support your IP protection needs.
Experts in pharmaceutical patent and trademark law
Confidentiality is key
As a fully registered and regulated firm of Chartered Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, we are legally and professionally bound to maintain strict confidentiality. We understand the sensitive nature of pharmaceutical innovations and ensure your formulations, drug delivery systems, and branding strategies remain secure at all times.
Dedicated Expert Contact
As a client of Bailey Walsh, you will have a dedicated attorney with deep expertise in pharmaceutical patents and trademarks. This ensures continuity, efficiency, and strategic guidance tailored to your intellectual property needs—from securing patents for novel compounds to protecting your brand in global markets.
Pragmatic and Strategic Advice
We provide clear, commercially focused advice tailored to the pharmaceutical industry. Whether assessing patentability, conducting freedom-to-operate searches, or managing complex trademark portfolios, our guidance is always practical, honest, and aligned with your business goals.
Highly Trained in Pharma
Our patent attorneys hold advanced degrees in scientific and engineering fields relevant to pharmaceuticals, including chemistry, biotechnology, and materials science. With decades of combined experience, our team stays ahead of regulatory and legal developments to offer the most informed IP protection strategies.
Efficiency in Patent Processing
We deliver cost-effective, high-quality IP services with a focus on the fast-moving pharmaceutical sector. Our streamlined approach ensures timely patent filings, rapid brand protection, and proactive management of your intellectual property portfolio, helping you stay ahead in competitive markets.
Experienced Attorneys
Our attorneys have extensive experience representing pharmaceutical companies before intellectual property offices and tribunals in the UK and Europe. From first-instance filings to appellate proceedings, we have successfully navigated complex patent challenges, opposition proceedings, and trademark disputes to safeguard our clients’ innovations and brands.
How we helped this pharmaceutical organisation protect their formulations
We have a long-standing partnership with a leading UK pharmaceutical company, providing a full range of intellectual property services to support their business. This includes securing patent protection for novel formulations, managing multi-jurisdictional patent families, and ensuring licensing and assignment agreements align with their commercial needs.
When launching new formulations, we conduct freedom-to-operate searches in key markets, provide infringement opinions, and advise on design-around strategies for third-party patents. We also assist with IP due diligence for acquisitions and partnerships, ensuring seamless integration of newly acquired assets.
Beyond patents, we protect our client’s brands worldwide, handling trade mark registrations for their company, subsidiaries, and product portfolio. Our strong relationship is built on expertise, trust, and consistently high-quality service.
Frequently asked questions
Virtually all new pharmaceuticals benefit from patent protection in some form. Pharmaceutical companies use the exclusivity provided by patent protection to recoup the capital invested drug discovery, development and clinical trials. The drug names themselves are protected by registered trade marks which provide additional protection against counterfeit products. For example adalimumab is a treatment of arthritis and sold under the brand name Humira, which is the registered trade mark owned by the pharmaceutical company AbbVie. It is reported that there are around 300 patent applications for Humira, of which 165 have been granted.
Bailey Walsh works with companies and research institutions at every stage of drug development, whether that is established pharma companies, generics manufacturers or universities Bailey Walsh can advise on a complete strategy to protect their innovations.
An initial, obligation free, consultation with a patent attorney at Bailey Walsh will help identify the intellectual property around your innovation and the best way to protect it.
