Vital business assets include its brand, reputation as well as creative output and intellectual creations. These add value in specific and extraordinary ways, with intellectual property recognised as a source of competitive advantage, future proofing and as a mean to generate continued revenue.
Our team helps individuals and businesses create, protect and exploit their intellectual property portfolio.
We advise sports and entertainment professionals to technology centred businesses, including sports clubs and athletes, eSports and gaming, artists and musicians, financial technology, and innovation firms, to new and emerging businesses on a full range of commercial and contentious IP matters.
With a broad offering we advise on creating and making deals, through to contentious intellectual property matters:
- Preparing applications, monitoring registrations, and conducting searches for trade marks;
- Negotiating and drafting commercial contracts which rely on intellectual property, including assignments, licensing, and franchising;
- Disputes involving copyright, trade marks, registered and unregistered designs and passing off;
- Due diligence for corporate matters where specific assets relying on intellectual property right need review; and
- Audits of intellectual property rights, to help assess risks, support in valuations and health check assets.
The management and protection of intellectual property often requires input from other legal specialists and from those with a detailed understanding of the industries our clients operate in. We work closely with colleagues around the firm to provide our clients with the full support they demand.
