Intellectual Property
We have experienced specialists within our Business Services Team dealing with all types of intellectual property (“IP”) issues such as:
- trade marks
- copyright
- designs
- patents
- trade secrets
- confidential information
Extracting valuable and valid IP from your business and taking proactive and cost effective steps to protect, manage and exploit it needs proactive legal support. Through our IP Watch™ service we have the experience in protecting, managing and exploiting IP portfolios.
Properly protected and exploited IP gives businesses a competitive edge in the market and adds real capital value business. Failure to protect IP can lose a business significant potential added value. We can assist with all types of IP related legal issues including:
- Risk management and safeguarding IP assets
- Protecting against copyright infringement of works created by software houses
- Registering and safe guarding trade mark rights
- Passing off actions and trade mark infringement
- IP brand protection strategies including digital rights management
- Protecting confidential information from misuse
- Licensing of products and services, technology and computer based inventions and software
- Outsourcing transactions
- Domain name disputes and associated IP ownership matters
- Registration of trademarks, patents and design rights worldwide
- IP licensing agreements
Brand Exploitation
Opportunities for brand exploitation have exploded in the digital age, but so has the need for brand protection. We work with a diverse range of clients dealing with a range of goods and services to ensure that the right balance is achieved. Through our IP WatchTM service we can provide advice on:
- Marketing contracts
- Marketing services supply agreements
- Production, licensing and talent contracts
- Joint promotional activity deals
- Branded content agreements
