Patents

Patents (licensing, transfer, litigation): 

Inventions and know-how: Inventions are typically an apparatus, a product or a manufacturing process. Often they can be monopolised by means of patents, but by no means always. Commercial success in exploiting an idea or using know-how to create opportunities requires legal advice which is informed, well-presented and works for your business. This is the service our solicitors aim to provide. 

Patent work
Key patents-related services offered by our solicitors include:

• advice on patent filing strategies
• "freedom to use" opinions
• advice on litigation strategies
• revocation actions and applications for declarations of non-infringement
• damages enquiries and accounts of profits
• drafting commercial documents such as joint venture, development, manufacturing, distribution and licensing agreements
• drafting confidentiality text and non-disclosure agreements.

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