Venner Shipley is a leading European intellectual property firm, offering a full range of services through a uniquely diverse team of patent, trademark, and design attorneys, as well as solicitors and barristers. The firm’s approach is to look beyond rights protection, covering enforcement, licensing and strategy, to enable clients to achieve their wider goals.

The firm has been embedded in Cambridge since 2006 and recently relocated to a new office space located on the Cambridge Science Park, aiming to provide a collaborative and innovative environment to serve clients and support the firm’s growth objectives.

A global practice with 15 offices across three continents, Marks & Clark’s Cambridge office is home to European and UK patent attorneys with particular expertise across electronics, life sciences, and chemistry. They work closely with start-ups, leading research institutes, universities, SMEs, and multinationals.

From its office on Hills Road in Cambridge, the firm offers not just patent related services, but also advises on design rights, trade marks, and commercial IP matters (including licensing, contracts, and agreements).

Mathys & Squire has over 100 qualified and trainee attorneys working across its network of offices throughout the UK and Europe.

In Cambridge, it established its presence in 2006 and it has significantly grown that presence over the past decade. Its office is found in the Platinum Building at the St John’s Innovation Park, which is an exciting hub for local start-ups and scale-ups. With expertise in a range of disciplines, the team provides high-quality IP services to businesses across the technology, life sciences, and academic sectors. It works closely with the local innovation community and regularly gives lectures, workshops, and IP clinic sessions at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School and Maxwell Centre.

Appleyard Lees has offices in Cambridge, Halifax, Manchester, Leeds, and Alderley Park - in these UK innovation hotspots, it is well positioned to give clients expert strategic advice in the UK and worldwide. It works with some of the world’s most innovative businesses and leading academic institutions, helping them to maximise the value of their IP throughout its entire lifecycle.

In Cambridge, it is based at Castle Park, and supports a range of clients from innovative university spin-outs to global corporates, particularly in the life sciences, biotech, and medtech sectors.

Formed in 2013, but now with over 200 people, Stobbs is an innovative brand advisory and intangible asset management firm. They are a “one-stop shop for brand-related work, from prosecution through licensing to anti-counterfeiting and litigation support” (Chambers & Partners, 2025).

The HQ is in Cambridge, and Stobbs now also has a presence in London, Munich, Dublin, Eindhoven, and the USA.

With offices in London and across the UK and in Germany, EIP also has a growing presence in Cambridge where it regularly arranges events and works with numerous tech sector clients from scale-ups to global tech companies. EIP has been consistently highly ranked across all six technology sectors in the FT Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms since 2019. It is particularly strong in helping clients navigate IP and patent strategy, whilst also providing services for IP portfolio management, analytics, and risk analysis. 

EIP has specialist offerings covering: data, open source software, and AI (“Codiphy”); semiconductor, electronics, and photonics companies (“Ampliphy”); early stage (bio)Pharma companies (“Stratiphy”); UPC patent litigation (“Uniphy”); and the quantum technology sector (“Quantiphy”). 

EIP prides itself in having a collaborative culture and providing great career opportunities right from the start, as trainees have the opportunity from early on in their careers to get experience of cutting-edge work, build deep relationships with clients, and prepare original drafting.