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Hargrave is a specialist UK intellectual property practice. We
are Chartered Patent Attorneys, Registered Trade Mark Attorneys
and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. We are able to
represent clients directly in the UK and before the European
Patent Office and European Community Trade Marks Office and can
act internationally through our established relationships with
intellectual property firms in other jurisdictions around the
world.
Page Hargrave was formed in 1991 by the merger of two specialist intellectual
property firms, Page & Co. in Bristol and Hargrave & Company in London.
The origins of the firm of Page & Co. go back to the early 1980's, when it
was founded in Chippenham, Wiltshire by Edmund John Page, formerly Patents Manager
at the very old and famous British Westinghouse engineering company, with that
company as a client. The firm developed, took on more partners and in 1985 opened
an office in Bristol, from where it could more effectively expand.
The firm of Hargrave & Company was formed in 1968 by Reginald Charles Hargrave,
operating initially from premises in Kingsway, near the law courts in The Strand,
London. In 1972 Hargrave & Company expanded through merger with the trade
mark practice of Sefton-Jones, O'Dell and Stephens, and then again in 1982 with
the acquisition of the firm Holborn Trade Mark Services.
In 1991 the opportunity for merger arose. Owing to the complementary skills and
expertise in the two firms, and their similar visions for the future, the merger
was successful and Page Hargrave came into being on 1 November, 1991. Both John
Page and Reg Hargrave have now retired, but their founding work is recognised
and remembered through the firm's name.
With offices in London, the capital city, and Bristol, the main city of the South
West of England and the nearest English city to the UK Patent Office headquarters
in Newport, South Wales, Page Hargrave is exceptionally well placed to meet the
opportunities and challenges of the future, and to continue to deliver - as it
and its predecessors have done for more than 30 years - a first rate service
to all of its clients.
Visit our website regularly to keep an eye on developments in intellectual property
law, particularly in the UK and Europe, in the New Millennium.
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