Intellectual Property

The department undertakes both contentious and non-contentious work (including mediation, litigation and arbitration as well as contract drafting) for a range of clients including those in the hi-tech/ biotech, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and information technology sectors.

We have excellent experience in advising clients in relation to every aspect of intellectual property law including:

• Heavyweight IP litigation

• Patent, design right, trade mark and copyright transfer and exploitation

• Intellectual property enforcement and protection

• Collaboration, research and development

• Brand protection and management

• Protection and exploitation of confidential information and know-how

• IP identification through detailed audits.

Work handled recently includes successfully prosecuting and defending several patent and design right infringement actions, multi-jurisdictional IP joint venture arrangements and patent based technology exploitation from university spin out companies.

Our team is known for providing hands on commercial advice, for resolving disputes in a sensible manner and for litigating aggressively where a dispute cannot be resolved any other way.