Intellectual Property, IT and E-Commerce Solicitors

Intellectual Property (IP) Solicitors
Whether you are seeking legal assistance to establish, protect, exploit or enforce your intellectual property rights, you can be reassured that our team of specialist intellectual property solicitors will give you practical, commercial and cost-effective advice.

Our solicitors cover all areas of intellectual property whether you are seeking advice on Developing, Protecting, Registering, Licensing, Purchasing or Selling intellectual property or are involved in an Ownership Dispute or Infringement claim.

Our expertise includes:

• Confidential Information
• Copyright
• Database Rights
• Design Rights
• Know-How
• Patents
• Trade Marks

Whilst not exhaustive, the following examples provide a broad context to the scope of our intellectual property work:

• Trade mark registrations and portfolio maintenance
• Advising companies on branding strategies
• Acquiring or assigning the rights in trade mark and patent portfolios
• Drafting and negotiating:
• Assignment agreements
• Collaboration agreements
• Licensing agreements
• R&D contracts
• International technology transfer agreements
• Licences to use third party databases
• Advising on database rights issues
• Counterfeit goods claims
• Trade mark litigation
• Patent disputes
• Design right claims
• Grey market goods advice

Information Technology (IT) Solicitors
Drawing from our experience of dealing with major projects and disputes within the IT sector, and from working for and with major companies in the IT industry, we understand the technology behind the software as well as the legal and commercial issues involved in the project or dispute.

From advising on the terms to include within a standard software licence or internet application agreement, to the drafting and negotiation of large scale IT procurement or outsourcing agreements , our specialist team provides a first class legal service with a commercial and practical approach.

We also have specialist experience of resolving IT and technology related disputes when they arise, including IT contractual disputes, disputes relating to key performance issues on IT systems and projects, termination issues and software licence disputes.

Our expertise includes:

• Software licences
• Software distribution agreements
• Software support and maintenance service agreements
• Software development agreements
• Service level agreements
• Hardware procurement
• IT outsourcing
• Tender responses
• Source code deposit agreements
• Interactive and new media
• Employee acceptable use policies
• Software and licensing disputes
• IT contract and performance disputes
• Project and outsourcing disputes
• Source code and escrow disputes

Whilst not exhaustive, the following examples provide a broad context to the scope of our IT work:

• Drafting software licences from standard clickwrap agreements to major software licensing contracts
• Drafting and negotiating software procurement agreements, software development agreements and software maintenance agreements, including advising in respect of service level agreements
• Drafting and negotiating outsourcing agreements for:
  • Payroll services
  • Helpdesk
  • Software maintenance
  • Hardware maintenance
• Advising customers and suppliers on the performance of their IT agreements and the range of options available when issues arise (including termination and renegotiation of the contract)
•   Advising on software licence and ownership issues

E-Commerce Solicitors
Online advertising and trading is subject to extensive e-commerce rules and regulations governing the terms within which websites should operate. Our specialist e-commerce team of solicitors have significant experience of auditing websites, drafting website terms and conditions and advising on the legal and practical commercial issues of running a website within the e-commerce rules and regulations.

Whether you are seeking advice for the initial stages of acquiring domain names and appointing website designers or require later stage advice in the form of a website audit, terms and conditions of trading or e-commerce law compliance, our team will give you proactive, commercial and cost effective advice.

Our expertise includes:

• Website terms and conditions
• Privacy policies
• Website user agreements
• Website design agreements
• Website hosting agreements
• Website linking agreements
• Domain Name acquisitions / assignments
• Compliance with consumer protection legislation
• Compliance with e-commerce legislation
• Internet and e-business disputes
• Cybersquatting
• Domain name disputes
• Online defamation claims
• Data protection and privacy issues
• Trade mark registrations

Whilst not exhaustive, the following examples provide a broad context to the scope of our e-commerce work:

• Supply of all terms and conditions required for websites, including website privacy policies, user agreements and terms and conditions of trading
• Advising on e-commerce rules and regulations governing website advertising and trading
• Advising on the protection of brands online
• Advising on internet advertising compliance
• Advising retailers in respect of consumer rights in e-commerce transactions
• Providing master service agreements for internet service providers
• Providing web designers with a standard set of documents for use on clients' websites
• Acting in respect of domain name disputes and cybersquatting
• Advising on the unauthorised copying of text, images and trade marks
• Advising on defamatory statements in blogs, internet chat rooms and discussion forums
• Disputes between website owners and designers

Call 0870 164 2372 to speak with an Intellectual Property Solicitor, IT Lawyer or an E-Commerce Solicitor.