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Corresponding with K&S by Email |
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Kilburn & Strode welcome clients who prefer to use email as their preferred method of communication. General queries may be addressed to ks@kstrode.co.uk, although clients are encouraged to send email correspondence directly to the responsible attorney.
You need to be aware of the following before instructing us to use email to discuss confidential matters, including the details of inventions or improvements to inventions for which a patent application has not yet been filed.
Public disclosure of an invention anywhere in the world, prior to the application filing date, is likely to invalidate any resultant patent in Europe and indeed in the majority of other countries. Since email correspondence cannot be guaranteed secure, this introduces a small element of risk: in the event that a third party accidentally or otherwise intercepts an email message containing confidential technical information, before a patent application is filed, this may prevent a valid patent being granted. Although the risk is small, it is nevertheless real and we would therefore need your specific instructions, by email or in writing, before we undertake any such correspondence.
Many of our clients, however, believe that the convenience benefits of using email outweigh any theoretical risks there may be, and are happy for us to use standard email quite freely.
Please let us know in writing - by email if you wish - whether you are happy for us to discuss confidential matters (such as technical details of non-filed cases) by email, or whether we should use fax or normal post for such discussions.
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