Intellectual Property

Our IP team provides advice on all intellectual property-related issues such as brand protection (including strategies for trade mark and domain name registration), comparative advertising issues, split IP ownership, exploitation of copyright and complex royalty arrangements. We draft, review, advise on and negotiate assignments and licences of all forms of IP (including copyright, trade marks, designs, patents and know-how), including where they involve complex royalty arrangements. This may be from a straightforward trade mark licence agreement through to complex franchise or merchandising arrangements. It may also involve R&D, collaboration, strategic alliances and agreements and strategies for protecting your trade secrets.

We seek to provide legal advice in a practical commercial context, whilst understanding your particular industry. Our dispute resolution specialists also advise if the relationship between the contracting parties goes sour, or if you want to take or defend infringement actions involving people you did not have a relationship with.