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Privilege on intellectual property law advice and patent attorneys and levelling up?
Introduction and who gets legal advice privilege
In common law jurisdictions legal advice privilege is generally afforded to communications between a lawyer and their client. In the UK the right to legal professional privilege is a general rule of our common law that communications between a lawyer and their client should be privileged from disclosure. The underlying principle is that legal advice privilege is in the public interest and a person should be able to make full and free disclosures to their legal advisors, even where such disclosures could be adverse to their interests were they made to a third party.