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The documentation provided by our services can assist in all aspects of the identification, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
We are distinguished by our combination of:
Recently we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of the company and as we looked back we were delighted to see how many of our most important clients have been with us since the first few years. Our continued success vindicates our approach of looking at everything from the client's point of view and putting service to the client at the top of our agenda. That is what drives our attention to detail and maintenance of rigorous standards. We invite you to consult our testimonials page to see the feedback from a number of our valued customers.
All of our analysts are postgraduates in a science or engineering discipline, and all have passed through our demanding interview process.
Our experienced supervisory staff provide the essential on-the-job training. Analysts take courses from the WIPO Academy. Victor Green & Company is also supportive of the Qualified Patent Information Professionals (QPIP) programme and we supplement our internal training with the skills and knowledge required by the QPIP syllabus. Staff are committed to a Continuous Professional Development programme to ensure we are always at the forefront of IP information.
We provide searches and reports that meet the clients' exact needs.
Our Pre-filing Budget Searches play a significant role in drafting. A leading firm of patent attorneys has said that the results of our budget novelty searches always play a significant role in their drafting of patent applications.
Each enquiry receives the personal attention and supervision of the managing director Victor Green, or the Principal Patent Analysts, Davinia Collyer, Alessio Brizzi and Joanne Kirkwood, as regards choice of strategy, execution of the search, quality control, and the presentation of results.
We provide reports including freedom to operate (FTO) searches, so compared with companies that just provide novelty searches, we are used to working in a meticulous and thorough way to meet the high standards of precision required for FTO.
We are imaginative, bringing lateral thinking to all our problem solving, and deliver results for even the most difficult searches. Read our stories.
We are also happy to take enquiries beyond the confines of the library or the internet, for example interviewing experts on head-up displays or visiting design museums to inspect lace patterns. In one notable case we were required to find date-marked operating manuals for a machine imported into the United Kingdom 20 years previously. Although the importers had destroyed their records, we were able to contact virtually all early purchasers of the equipment, determine the fate of their manuals, and locate and interview five witnesses whose evidence was crucial to a successful outcome for our client.
In-house language skills include French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish.
To some extent we are also able to input the words equivalent to non-Latin text as the keywords in our search. For example in searching the keyword "inhaler", we can search the original fulltext non-Latin documents in China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea using: 吸入器 , 吸入器 and 흡입기.
We can help you whether you are:
There are many situations where it is legally advisable or commercially useful to search through existing patents and patent applications, registered designs or technical literature. Our bespoke reports can aid in all aspects of the identification, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
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This year, Victor Green & Company celebrates 40 years as a trusted patent search and analysis service for intellectual property professionals in the UK and beyond.
Founded in 1986, Victor Green combined emerging online technology with rigorous search methodology to create a more reliable and consistent approach to patent searching. Today, our proprietary search methods, our Concept Library, and our decades of shared expertise continue to deliver meticulous, resourceful and cost-effective reports to our clients in all fields of technology.
Over the years, we have continued to invest in our expertise. Our analysts all hold Master or PhD qualifications and average 20 years of professional patent experience. Two of our
Principal Patent Analysts are QPIPs (Qualified Patent Information Professionals), the only internationally recognised
qualification for patent analysts, and we were delighted when our Head of Life Science & Biotechnology, Davinia Collyer, received the Susan Helliwell Award in 2022
for her achievement in the annual QPIP examination.
As our industry evolves, so do we, with advanced chemical substructure searching, gene biosequence searching, and the careful use of human-in-the-loop AI to enhance our services, all the while retaining the bespoke and personal touch which defines who we are.
We are grateful for the trust our clients have placed in us over the past 40 years. Many of you have been with us since the beginning, and we look forward to continuing to support your role in the world of innovation for many years to come.
40 lessons from 40 years - as part of our 40th anniversary, we are looking at what we've learnt and what makes us unique.
Finding and interviewing witnesses.
ClickWe are gratified that Pooja Deswal joined our Electronics team in April 2025.
She holds a Master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and an LLB from MD University, India. She is also a qualified Indian Patent Agent
ClickVictor Green & Company is happy to be sponsoring the British Patent Information Professionals' (BPIP) website again for 2026.
It is the main UK Patent user group for those involved in search and analysis and has links with the Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG). BPIP shares best practice and many of its members have achieved Qualified Patent Information Professional (QPIP) status.
ClickWe are pleased to welcome Richard Gregson to the Life Science & Biotechnology team.
He has a Master of Chemistry (MChem) degree from the University of St Andrews and went on to complete a PhD there on the synthesis and structure of self-assembling organic materials.
ClickDavinia Collyer was a speaker at the CEPIUG 15th Year Anniversary Conference in 2023, as the 2022 QPIP Susan Helliwell commemorative award winner.
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We are thrilled that Davinia Collyer, our Head of Life Science & Biotechnology, has been awarded the Qualified Patent Information Professionals (QPIP) Susan Helliwell Award 2022.
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Joanne Kirkwood as Principal Patent Analyst for Chemistry.
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We also give a warm welcome to Nivedha Radhakrishnan, who recently joined us as an analyst in the Electronics team.
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Our analysts have considerable experience patent searching expertise in the blockchain area.
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