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Licensing & Intellectual Property
We specialise in helping creative, innovative and technology businesses (and individuals) to exploit and commercialise their intellectual property rights via licensing and collaborations.
We can also help you to protecting the good name of your business and your brand, your designs and patents and can help you to register trade-marks and pursue copycats or businesses who infringe your inventions, design or trade-marks or who are passing off their business as yours in trade, online and on social media and to recover royalties and revenue that is due to you from unauthorised use of your intellectual property rights by others.
Key areas we can help with are:
- Trade mark, design and patent registration in the UK and, via our network of foreign lawyers and trade mark agents and patent attorneys, worldwide.
- Licensing intellectual property rights, by either securing a licence to use artistic, literary or musical works, inventions, new materials and innovative technology, software, inventions, and know-how or providing a licence to others to rights that you own. Key to making licensing work is to clearly define what is being licensed, the fees or royalties due and how and when they will be collected.
- As a rights owner it is crucial to limit your liability under a contract. As a licensee, you want to know you are licensing IP where there is freedom to operate and robust warranties given about those rights. Identifying who is responsible for pursuing infringement or covering third party infringement claims is also crucial. We can help you navigate through negotiating warranties, limitations of liability and which exclusions should reasonably apply.
- Service and support often feature in Intellectual Property licensing. We can structure your contracts so that it is easy to change the service or support levels according to customer needs, whilst retaining your ‘standard’ terms.
- Termination provisions and the right to give notice vary hugely in contracts. We work with you to give your business security of term or flexibility to terminate depending on your business needs.
