Intellectual property

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:

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

To contact Samantha Livesey, Head of the Intellectual property, IT and E-commerce department, please call 0844 980 1444 or send an email. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.