2025 sees HLK celebrate 175 years of helping the world’s innovators. Below you’ll find a collection of articles, stories and reflections, each one celebrating the legacy we’re proud to honour and the exciting future we’re building together.
Join us as we look back on the past 175 years, celebrate the present, and chart the path ahead!
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In this article, Joanne Addison explores the rapid evolution of wind power and reflects on advances in turbine technology and blade materials, highlighting how innovation has driven massive gains in efficiency since the 1850s.
In this article, Alex Rogers explores an iconic Bristol innovator, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and what his views on the IP system were. The story wasn’t quite what we were expecting!
In this interview, Frances Wilding shares her journey, memorable cases, and valuable advice for the next generation of patent attorneys, providing a glimpse into the dynamic and ever-changing world of IP.
In this interview, Amanda Mallon shares her insights on memorable cases, significant accomplishments and her advice to the next generation of trade mark attorneys.
Sophie Day-Riley and Rachel Conway explore the hair and beauty industry from the 1920s to the 1960s and our firm’s legacy of protecting hair perming technologies.
Oran McNaughton shines the light on optometry and how the aspiration to imagine better drives innovation in this space, through the lens of an invention from 1927.
James Bowen discusses the issue of food insecurity, advancements in agritech, and HLK’s history of protecting inventions relating to pest control.
What led you to a career in IP? Marie-Alexis Mezin, one of our trainee patent attorneys, shares how she found a career in patent law and why it is a perfect fit for her.
Answering the question: What led you to become a patent attorney?, Jo Addison shares her career journey from a graduate with a passion for sport, to a science teacher and eventually a patent attorney.
Kenan Hamarsheh joined HLK in September 2023 as a trainee trade mark attorney. Read his reflections on his first year with the firm.
In this article, Thomas Hoolaghan, an associate in our technology team, explores training in the IP profession, looking at HLK’s long-standing tradition of training the next generation of attorneys.
Over the last 175 years, our teams of patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, and more recently IP solicitors, have experienced great changes, not only in how we and our clients work, but also through the birth of new industry sectors, innovations and brands that have changed the world and become part of everyday life.
The IP FilesTo celebrate our 175th anniversary, we are taking a deep dive into our files and digging out some of the patent, design and trade mark applications that HLK has worked on in our 175-year history of protecting IP.
See all our IP Files so far.
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