Moore Barlow fields a wide-ranging IP practice, demonstrating capabilities across portfolio management, licensing and R&D collaboration agreements. John Warchus, who actively operates across the firm’s Guildford and Southampton offices, steers the firm’s offering with his knowledge in the strategy, filing and dispute areas. Emma Butcher possesses a strong grounding in trade mark filings and due diligence matters.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Easy to work with. They are very effective and clear. Keeping best interest a priority. A must recommend on IP matters.’

  • ‘Our main contact, irrespective of subsequent redirection has been John Warchus, with whom we have developed a strong working relationship, the benefit of which is that the background and briefing is always undertaken rapidly.’

  • ‘John Warchus always goes the extra mile, he cares about the service levels of his entire organisation and is painstaking in the approach to our work.'

  • ‘The whole team was outstanding from our initial enquiries through to formal engagement. Following engagement, communication and support was excellent at all levels.’

  • ‘We primarily worked with John Warchus who was not only outstanding in his support and advice, but more importantly to us as the client, was very personable in his style and approach making us feel at ease and confident we had found the right partner.’

Key clients

  • Minesoft Limited
  • Four Seasons Marquees Limited
  • Open System Controls (O.S.C.) Limited
  • Elise & Gaston Limited
  • Diligents Male Grooming & Wellbeing Limited
  • Ellescope Limited
  • Monolith AI Limited
  • Target Therapies Limited
  • Dr leather Ltd
  • Skyline Systems Development Limited
  • DTN UK Limited
  • ISEB Limited (Independent Schools Examination Board)

Work highlights

Advised Minesoft on its growing trade mark portfolio and drafting IP-related terms for its new AI enhanced platform, Origin.
Advised DTN UK Limited on IP issues relating to high-value tenders for Manchester Airport Group and Swedish utility Vattenfall Vindig.
Advised Monolith AI Limited on new IP licence terms for its new AI platform.

Practice head

John Warchus

Other key lawyers

Emma Butcher