Protection of our intellectual property is a strategic priority for our consumers, and we rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret laws. Our ability to protect and use our intellectual property rights prevent others from infringing on our proprietary rights, is crucial to our customers.  We will be able to protect our proprietary rights from unauthorised use by third parties only to the extent that our proprietary rights are covered by valid and enforceable patents, trademarks or copyrights, or are effectively maintained as trade secrets, know-how or other proprietary information.

We aggressively seek UK and international patent protection. We own our intellectual property, including patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, and proprietary information.
We devote significant resources to obtaining, enforcing and defending patents, as well as developing and protecting our other proprietary information. Our comprehensive patent strategy is to augment our proprietary portfolio by continuing actively to seek patents covering our products. It is anticipated that these patents will give us a means of blocking competitors from using similar or alternative designs to compete directly with our products.