175 years behind tomorrow's innovators
We help businesses protect what makes them unique - their brands, inventions, designs and creativity.
Your ideas deserve
more than paperwork.
From first filing to portfolio management, enforcement and strategic advice, we support you at every stage - across Belgium, Europe and beyond.
How we help
Protection
We help you to identify the best strategy in order for your development to benefit from IP. We handle the registration processes for obtaining worldwide IP rights.
Enforcement
We help to prevent violations of your rights, defend you against infringing market players and represent you in dealings with IP Authorities.
Strategic optimisation
Your IP is an important asset. We help you to determine how to make the most of your rights by performing economic audits and drafting licence or exploitation agreements.
What we cover
Patents
Protect your inventions
Exclusive rights to stop others exploiting your invention and a lever to valorise R&D through licensing, sales or investors.
Trademarks
Own your brand
The names, logos, colours or sounds that set your products and services apart from your competitors'.
Designs
Safeguard your look
Protection for a product's appearance - its shape, lines, contours, texture or ornamentation, in 2D or 3D.
Copyright
Defend your creativity
Automatic protection for original works of any medium - from written and musical works to computer programs.
Domain names
Secure your online identity
Your main gateway online - and, with the rise of new gTLDs, a growing front to defend for rights holders.
Supplementary Protection Certificates
Extend your protection
Extends patent protection by up to five years for medicinal products requiring marketing authorisation.
Plant breeder's rights
Protect new varieties
Exclusive rights over a new plant variety of any genus or species, however it was developed.
A firm you can build on
For 175 years, Kirkpatrick has helped inventors, creators and businesses protect what matters. Our multidisciplinary team (attorneys, engineers and paralegals) works side by side on every file, and is authorised to represent you before all the major offices, including BOIP, OPRI, EUIPO, EPO, WIPO, UKIPO and INPI.
Based in Belgium and active across Europe, we combine local proximity with international reach.