Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is now a huge part of today’s economy. Clients who need IP lawyers typically expect their lawyers to be fast moving, proactive, flexible, creative and to spot both the commercial opportunities and the risks. We’re exactly that type of law firm – dynamic, modern and forward-thinking.
The rapid pace of innovation in recent years has transformed the technology and business services sectors. This has triggered impacts in many other sectors and changed the way people do business. As a result, companies and entrepreneurs face a host of challenges, including enhanced data protection laws and numerous copying programmes and hackers, not to mention keeping up to speed with ever-changing laws as new technologies continue to emerge.
Intellectual property protects intangible assets, including new ideas, technology, products, software, creative works, and brands. We help to protect and commercialize the intangible assets that make a business stand out from the crowd. Whether it’s technical ideas, brands, creative works or software, we can help.
Combining a deep technical knowledge of the law with straightforward commercial pragmatism, we focus on finding intelligent solutions that work for businesses. We advise on all areas of intellectual property law, including trademarks, passing off, copyright, patents, confidential information and domain names.
Brand protection
We help brand owners to protect, exploit and enforce the rights in their brands. Our services include trade mark and copyright advice, licensing, and enforcement.
Licenses and contracts
We can help to commercialize and exploit IP rights effectively through licenses and collaboration, technology transfer, R&D, media and confidentiality agreements.
IP disputes
We are skilled at resolving intellectual property issues of all kinds, including court proceedings, trade mark registry disputes, domain name disputes, and social media takedowns.
We help individuals and organizations of all sizes protect their intellectual property rights.