Regulatory & Legal Info

IP Asset LLP (“IP Asset”) is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under Registration Number OC316258. Our registered address is 30 Bankside House, Stationfields, Oxford, OX5 1JE, UK. Our registered VAT Number is GB8717950695. Any reference to a partner means a member of IP Asset LLP. A list of the members of IP Asset and their qualifications is available for inspection at our London and Oxford offices. Copies of our general terms and conditions can be accessed here.

IP Asset is regulated as a firm of patent and trade mark attorneys by the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (“IPREG”).  Our patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys are UK registered patent attorneys and/or registered trade mark attorneys. Both the firm and the attorneys are subject to the IPREG Code of Conduct.

Our European patent attorneys are members of the European Patent Institute (“epi”) and subject to the epi code of conduct when acting before the European Patent Office.

Vicki Salmon and Nicholas Fox are both solicitors practising through IP Asset. As IP Asset is regulated by IPREG, their practise as solicitors is primarily regulated by the IPREG Code of Conduct.  Their conduct as solicitors practising through an IPREG regulated firm is additionally subject to rules 1 (Core Duties), 12 (Framework of Practice), 20 (Rights and Obligations of Practice), 21 (Separate Businesses) and 24  (Interpretation) of the SRA Code of Conduct.

Although qualified as a barrister, Nicholas Fox practises as a patent attorney and solicitor rather than as a barrister and as such his practice is regulated by IPREG and the SRA rather than the Bar Standards Board. He is only subject to the Bar Code of Conduct to the extent that it applies to non-practising barristers.