Intellectual Property
Safeguarding your intellectual property rights
We have extensive experience developing protective legal mechanisms for a diverse range of intellectual property rights. Working with IP lawyers across the globe, we can assist with:
Trademark registration
Performing trademark searches and guiding you through each stage of the registration process in the UK and internationally, from filing, to handling oppositions and negotiating co-existence
Trade secrets
Assessing trade secrets and advising on the best protection measures, including design and implementation of security plans, NDAs and confidentiality agreements
Copyrights
Helping clients navigate legal issues relating to copyrights, such as employer and employee ownership conflicts, joint ownership, registration and enforcement
Technology IP
Producing software licencing agreements for both development and commercialisation as well as advising on database rights and IP assignments
IP and employment
Assisting with intellectual property aspects of employment and consultancy agreements, including the question of ownership
IP litigation
Resolving trademark and copyright infringements, assisting with potential remedies, and supporting through dispute resolutions and cancellation actions
Transfer of IP rights
Advising on the assignment of intellectual property rights following asset purchase acquisitions, company restructurings or intra-company transfers
Patents
Supporting in all aspects of patent rights, from drafting to registration and beyond
