Passing off

Solicitors here offer comprehensive support in all areas of intellectual property law including registered trade marks, passing off, patents, designs, copyrights and confidential information. In the key areas:

Trade marks: Brand strength can be crucial to success in the marketplace. Our clients and international correspondent firms ask our solicitors to handle on their behalf: registrations, oppositions and renewals; devising and policing protection programmes; transfers of title; infringement and passing off proceedings; revocation actions and challenges to validity; as well as negotiating and documenting licence and franchise arrangements. 

Combinations
Solicitors here can supply the ability, precision and energy which companies, businesspeople and correspondent firms need in a competitive world marketplace to manage their intellectual property rights successfully, including in relation to:

• computer software
• confidential information
• copyrights
• database rights
• defamation and trade libel 
• designs (registered and unregistered)
• employee obligations
• EU treaty regulations
• free trade
• information technology
• internet
• joint ventures
• know-how and show-how
• licensing and franchising
• litigation, arbitration, mediation
• media and publishing
• patents (licensing, transfer and litigation)
• passing off
• technology transfer
• trade marks
• unfair competition