Enforcing your intellectual property rights is essential to maintaining those rights and their value. Without an effective enforcement strategy in your intellectual property policy you risk losing a valuable asset, your competitive edge, and potentially the rights themselves.
We can help manage the risk by avoiding unnecessary disputes and resolving disputes quickly and efficiently when they arise. We devise strategies which respect our clients’ priorities and budget, with a view to the best possible outcome.
We are effective negotiators and take a commercial and creative approach to enforcement and disputes, using mediation where appropriate. Where litigation is necessary, our lawyers are forceful and effective.
We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the prosecution and defence of substantial intellectual property disputes. We also handle infringements on the internet and domain name disputes.
Experience:
- Litigating and resolving trade mark and design right disputes for household product designers and manufacturers.
- Litigating patent disputes, particularly in the building and construction sector.
- Advising and coordinating international trade mark litigation on behalf of a major designer clothing brand.
- Successful mediation of numerous disputes.
- Resolving disputes over copyright in literary works, sculpture, photographs and dramatic works.
- Resolving a dispute over rights to a TV format.
- Resolution and successful adjudication of numerous domain name disputes.
- Trade mark oppositions for many clients including fully contested cases, click this link for an example.
- Dealing with cases involving parallel imports (grey goods).
- Disputes over infringement of copyright online and successful take-down for clients.