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Located in the City of London, the financial centre of the UK and Europe, HGF London provides the firm’s full range of IP services to clients in the South East of England and globally.

Our London-based patent and trade mark attorneys work alongside HGF’s legal team to provide coordinated advice across a complete range of technical and commercial fields, including branding, life sciences, chemistry, electronics, software and engineering. Our proximity to the UK capital’s world-class universities and medical research institutions, puts us at the heart of the innovation.

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