Intellectual Property Solicitors

“Intellectual property rights” is a phrase used to cover a variety of legal rights which can either arise automatically or be registered in respect of creative works, whether that’s a brand identity, trade mark, know-how or confidential information or artistic/dramatic works. 

These intellectual property assets must be protected from potential competitors, so you control how you exploit them. To do this, you will need the advice of specialist intellectual property lawyers to ensure legal recognition and enforcement of the ownership of your IP rights. 

Our Intellectual Property Lawyers can advise on all aspects of intellectual property law, such as registering, protecting, and exploiting your IP, putting you in control of how your intellectual property is used. 

We welcome the opportunity to review your IP portfolio and discuss your requirements in detail. Our IP lawyers will work with you to compile an intellectual property strategy to protect your IP. 

Our Intellectual Property solicitors can help with the following matters: 

• IP Audits
• Breach of Trademark Claims
• Copyright Infringement
• Design Right Infringement
• Domain Name Disputes
• Misuse of Confidential Information
• Passing Off Claims
• Patent Claims
• Protecting Your IP

• Our intellectual property team have helped various businesses with specialist intellectual property services, such as trade mark litigation, trade mark registrations, and IP infringement cases. 
• Acting for a Chinese frozen food manufacturer in a claim against one of its former employees concerning misuse of confidential information and copyright and database right infringements.
• Acting for a New York based pastry house and assisting it with policing its IP rights daily.
• Acting for a clothing supplier in a design rights dispute with a fashion brand which manufactured and sold maternity clothes.
• Acting for a start-up software development company and its directors in successfully defending injunctive proceedings relating to breach of contract, breach of confidence and copyright infringement.
• Acting for a supplier and retailer of tobacco products in a trademark infringement case against a US manufacturer and UK distributor.
• Advising a film production company about the ownership and licensing of various rights in connection with a film.
• A review of trade marks for a DIY trade centre, advising on the trade marks to be registered, possible classes of registration and cost analysis. We liaised with our trade mark agent over the merits of the applications, including filing international, EC and UK-only trademarks and whether a series mark could be applied for.
• Advising a technology company on the terms of a tri-party consortium agreement which involved divulging confidential information and intellectual property rights, resulting in the creation of jointly owned intellectual property.
• Working with a specialist patent attorney to obtain patent protection for a SaaS product.
• Assisting a client with analysing the market presence and intellectual property registrations from a legal perspective concerning potential new brand ideas.

We will provide you with a flexible menu of fee options rooted in our promise of complete transparency over our charges. We assess the value of each project, task, or advice based on its commercial value to you and then provide you with fee options scoped against the type of service and advice you require.

Fee options can include, where appropriate, fixed fees, a retainer, hourly or day rates, or a blend of such options.

We provide you with regular cost updates and will not incur any additional charges without your agreement.

To find out more about the services we can provide, including our retainer service, please give us a call.