Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property lawyers provide commercially focused advice to protect and maximise the value of your IP assets.
Organisations that innovate, scale or build strong brands face growing pressure to identify, protect and control their intellectual property. Intellectual property often drives enterprise value and competitive position. The right IP lawyer helps ensure ownership, protection and structure support growth, investment and licensing.
Startups, SMEs and established businesses rely on practical intellectual property legal services to identify, protect and manage their rights. Our IP legal services focus on reducing risk and avoiding disputes. We advise on trade mark filing strategies, licensing arrangements and issues involving intellectual property infringement, providing advice that is both legally sound and commercially practical.
We help our clients understand intellectual property law, including trade marks, patents, design rights, and copyright. Our lawyers support brand creation, trade mark clearance, brand protection strategies and portfolio management. Where licensing forms part of a transaction, an IP licensing lawyer structures and negotiates agreements that define ownership, permitted use and rights.
Intellectual property issues often arise in investments, acquisitions, restructures and other corporate transactions. Our lawyers advise on the ownership, control and transfer of IP assets. We also ensure intellectual property rights are clearly documented and properly allocated within wider commercial arrangements.
Our role is to help businesses understand what they own, record ownership correctly and manage intellectual property with confidence in both day-to-day operations and strategic decisions.
Expertise
- Brand strategy and protection
- Intellectual property audits
- Trade mark clearance searches
- Trade mark registration and renewal
- IP licensing and assignments
- Commercial agreements and IP rights
- International IP protection
- IP in corporate transactions
- IP infringement disputes
- Confidential information disputes
- Trade secrets protection
Meet the team
Recent work
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The Royal Mint
Giving intellectual property advice to The Royal Mint (including on new coins, medals, and innovative products like the Bullion app) as well as continuously providing them with a trainee secondment.
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Pixsy Inc
Acting as Pixsy Inc.’s preferred legal adviser in the UK, pursuing claims on behalf of its members against infringing parties.
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International film company
Acting for an international film company in a dispute with Channel 4 over the scope of broadcasting rights granted under a copyright license agreement.
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Virtual Ward Technologies Limited
Helping Virtual Ward Technologies Limited to protect the IP ownership and licencing of a ventilator prototype to be used in response to the pandemic.
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Smart Green Shipping
Acting for Smart Green Shipping, on their innovative new green shipping project – advising on their IP strategy, IP roadmap for investors, IP licences and assignments, and working with patent attorneys to register designs.
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Sero Energy
Completing an IP Audit for Sero Energy through the IPO and Welsh Government IP Audit Plus Scheme to identify opportunities for exploitation of IP, registration of IP rights, and strategy for protection of future rights in upcoming projects.
