Our IP team has a track record of successfully bringing and defending IP claims and will act quickly and effectively to combat any infringement of your IP rights and minimise damage to your business.
Whether it be taking a case to court to demonstrate the strength of your IP assets or negotiating a swift resolution so you can focus on your business, our decades of cross-sector experience will help you reach the outcome that is right for you, making sure your IP assets are safe and secure, and taking appropriate steps against infringers.
Our brand and reputation specialists can also safeguard your public image from defamation, malicious falsehoods, misuse of image rights, false advertising claims, help you navigate the Advertising Standards Code safely and provide anti-counterfeiting strategies both here and abroad.
Whether you need our support in the digital domain, or with specific types of proceedings, our clients have benefited from our advice on:
- Cyber squatting and copycat websites
- Data protection enforcements
- Domain name disputes
- Crypto and NFT asset recovery
- Bringing and defending patent, trade mark, passing off, design, and copyright infringements and claims
- Confidentiality breaches and trade secrets
- Trade mark opposition and revocation proceedings
- Licencing and franchising disputes, as well as claims relating to ownership of IP rights
- FRAND disputes.
Where necessary we work with a range of external experts, including IP registration experts, foreign lawyers, forensic examiners, specialist barristers and litigation funders and insurers.
Strategic reinforcement
We will help you plug any gaps in your IP protection and ensure it is watertight by anticipating any future possible disputes and proactively putting strategies in place so that you’re not caught out.
We will support you in maintaining and monitoring your IP rights, provide training to increase awareness and education in your workforce, and help to effectively manage your portfolio.
