Greater Manchester manufacturing
Coatings family, kept tight
A five-jurisdiction patent family and a design-right overlay, with trade-secret protocols for the process chemistry that should never have been filed.
UK intellectual property management
Curate the rights that actually build the business.
Patents, trade marks, designs and know-how only earn their keep if someone is watching the docket, the market and the clock. Curiterealm runs that discipline from Manchester for UK companies and inbound investors.
A managed IP practice, not a filing shop
We plan the rights, run the UKIPO and international programmes, keep renewals honest, and coordinate counsel when a reserved legal step is required. The file does not go quiet between invoices.
Patent programmes
UK filings, PCT and European strategies, employee-invention hygiene, and freedom-to-operate mapping before you spend a development year on a blocked design.
Patent services
Trade marks
Clearance, UKIPO filing after the April 2026 fee change, Madrid designations, watching, and lookalike response for consumer brands.
Portfolio stewardship
Dockets, cost forecasts, board reporting and due diligence rooms so investors see a curated realm, not a shoebox of certificates.
Enforcement, without reckless threats
IPEC strategy, customs recordation, platform takedowns, and careful handling of the UK groundless-threats rules so a warning letter does not become the story.
Enforcement desk
Why unmanaged rights quietly expire
A granted patent is not an asset if year-five renewal is missed. A brand is not protected if the class list was written for last year's product. We exist for that unglamorous, compounding work.
UKIPO official fees rose by about a quarter from 1 April 2026. Waste is now more expensive.
Renewals on the calendar
Every UK, EP, PCT national and Madrid mark we manage sits on a dual-reminder docket. You get a reasoned keep-or-drop note, not a last-week panic invoice.
UK-first, world-aware
Post-Brexit comparable rights, the fact that the UK is outside the Unified Patent Court, and Madrid/PCT sequencing are designed in at the start, not patched after a failed EU assumption.
Board-ready reporting
Quarterly portfolios in plain English: what you own, what it costs to keep, what is being opposed, and what a buyer would actually diligence.
Recent programmes
Read the case studies
Fashion & retail
House mark, 14 classes, watched
Clearance, UK and Madrid filings, and a 12-month watch that caught a lookalike listing before it reached marketplace scale.
Diagnostics spin-out
FTO before the Series A
Freedom-to-operate and a PCT filing plan that survived investor counsel's review without a last-minute data-room scramble.
Bring the docket into the light
Send the current schedule of rights, or a one-page note on what you are about to launch. We reply within one UK business day with whether we can help and what a first audit would cover.
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