Introducing Joe Foote

Joe Foote, Partner of HarriFoote IP

 

Jane Lambert

On 31 July 2025, I announced that the Menai Science Park ("M-SParc") would celebrate the World Intellectual Property Organization's global celebration of intellectual property examiners and Wales Enterprise Day with an in-person and online lunchtime seminar entitled How to Apply for a UK Patent, Trade Mark or Registered Design.  I set out some details in Wales Enterprise Day 2025 - Working with the IPO on 16 Aug 2025.

In that article, I wrote:

"We have invited and are waiting to hear from two distinguished intellectual property practitioners to fill the next two slots. One will be a patent attorney who is already well known to M-SParc, while the other will be a trade mark attorney. They will explain their roles and how they can assist businesses in Wales and beyond. They are expected to speak from 12:30 and 12:50 respectively. The patent attorney will mention applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the trade mark attorney trade mark applications under the Madrid Protocol, and design registration applications under the Hague Agreement."

I can now announce that the speaker on trade marks will be Mr Joe Foote, a partner of HarriFoote IP.

HarriFoote IP is a partnership between Joe and Michael Harrison which specializes in trade mark prosecution and ancillary services.   Michael is a distinguished patent and trade mark attorney.  He was one of the founders of Harrison Goddard Foote and President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys between 2005 and 2006.  It was during his presidency that the Institute changed its name from the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents to the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.

Michael is the Harrison in Thomas Harrison IP Ltd.   The director of that practice is Sean Thomas, who is already well known to M-SParc's management and tenants as well as entrepreneurs, inventors, business advisors and investors throughout North West Wales.  He lives near Holyhead and has spent much of his life on Anglesey.

When I first came across M-SParc, there were very few IP advisors in the vicinity.  Now there are many.  Sean is on the spot and his colleagues Michael and Joe are at the end of a phone line.   I am also available if anyone wants specialist advice on strategy, enforcement. licensing or other issue or representation in the Intellectual Property Office. Patents Court or other tribunal.  Company and commercial solicitor Andrea Knox can draw up shareholder agreements and other legal instruments.   Specialist tax advisor, Steve Livingston of IP Tax Solutions, can assist with R&D credits, patent box and all sorts of other tax issues.  Gwenllian Owen, M-SParc's Commercialization and Innovation Officer, can introduce you to locally available resources such as the FabLab at the Pontio Centre and Richard Fraser-Williams of Busines Cymru to services and resources in the rest of Wales.

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