Haseltine Lake in Europe

We are an English-speaking European firm. We have three offices in the UK and one in Germany. Although we process high volumes of national patent, trade mark and design applications in both the UK and Germany, our main focus of activity is in European patent work at the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Community trade mark and design work at the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM).

Each year, we are involved in the filing of more than 1,000 patent applications at the EPO and we deal with hundreds of responses and scores of oppositions. Last year we filed around 250 Community trade mark applications, and since the introduction of the new Community design in 2003, we are processing rapidly increasing volumes of design applications.

Our Munich office is the key to our European identity. It is staffed by five dual-qualified European patent attorneys (one German Patentanwälte, two UK patent attorneys, one Italian patent attorney and one French patent attorney) and a full paralegal and administrative support team. It is their job to keep the Haseltine Lake network up to date with legal, administrative and procedural practices and developments at the EPO. The office is situated close to the EPO and is used by Haseltine Lake attorneys from all other offices and by their clients to prepare for hearings and oppositions at the EPO. This constant traffic through Munich helps to maintain the flow of information to our UK offices.

Our detailed knowledge of European practice and procedure and our English language delivery, is a combination that many clients from North America and the Far East have come to value.