Intellectual Property

Businesses of all kinds have intellectual property rights (“IPRs”) whether they know it or not. When they are appropriately defended and exploited with expert legal help, IPRs confer competitive advantage and represent a valuable source of revenue. Our intellectual property lawyers provide a proactive service within a commercial context at a competitive price.

We can help in the following areas:

• acquisition of patents, trade marks, design rights, domain names and other IPRs capable of registration
• actions for infringement of IPRs, passing off and misuse of trade secrets
• assignment and licensing of IPRs
• audits of IPRs
• confidential information, privacy and know-how
• copy clearance of marketing and advertising materials
• copyright and moral rights aspects of artistic and literary publications
• database protection and exploitation
• domain name disputes
• due diligence examination of IPRs relevant to corporate transactions
• franchising
• image and personality rights
• internet aspects
• software