Intellectual Property (“IP”) includes:
- Trade marks
- Design rights
- Patents
- Copyright
- Database rights
- Domain names
- Confidential information
- Data protection
- Freedom of information
The Specialist IP Services we provide include:
- Advising on IP protection and drafting confidentiality agreements
- Advising on, commencing, or defending IP litigation, arbitrations and mediations (primarily in the UK, but also assist on disputes in the US, Asia, Europe and the Far East)
- Drafting and negotiating assignments
- Drafting and negotiating trade mark, software, copyright, design right and patent licences
- Drafting and negotiating distribution, manufacturing, franchise, sponsorship and agency agreements
- Trade mark filings advice and oppositions
- Negotiating and drafting co-existence agreements
- Managing trade mark, design right and patent portfolios
- Advising on competition issues, parallel imports, and selective distribution policies in relation to IP agreements
- Drafting and negotiating Collaboration and Research agreements
- IP audits
- Monitoring and policing IP counterfeit activity worldwide
