Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
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Our attorneys have considerable experience advising clients in relation to commercial due diligence activities across the full spectrum of intellectual property (IP) rights.
Clients value our commercial focus and attention to detail in helping them to evaluate and realise new business opportunities.
The assessment of IP portfolios continues to play an important role in commercial due diligence for companies seeking to realise the value of their IP portfolios through product branding, licensing and commercialisation. IP due diligence typically requires the independent assessment of one of more third party IP rights in the context of a proposed commercial agreement or transaction. Such assessments often include the consideration of matters relating to IP ownership, patentability/registrability and freedom-to-operate, and may be required during the course of proposed mergers and acquisitions, investment funding rounds, or as part of licensing agreements.
We understand the importance of effective IP due diligence as a means to evaluate new business opportunities and mitigate commercial risk. Clients choose to work with us in this area because they value our ability to provide advice that is timely, pragmatic and commercially focused. Our breadth and diversity of IP professionals means that we are able to advise clients across the full spectrum of IP rights in addition to associated contractual matters.
We support clients seeking to commercialise their IP through agreements and transactions with third parties. This work typically involves providing information and advice to third party advisers on behalf of our clients and working with them to ensure our client’s best interests are realised throughout commercial negotiations.
We also support clients seeking to acquire rights under third party IP rights through agreements and transactions with third parties. This work typically involves liaising with third party advisers on behalf of our clients to assess IP portfolios relevant to their proposed commercial activities.
Clients regularly ask us to assess the impact of third party IP rights on their proposed commercial activities. This work typically involves analysing third party IP, often following relevant legal searches, and advising clients on their ability to market a particular product or service.
As Trade Mark Attorneys, one of the questions we are asked almost daily basis is whether new marks are registrable. As UK IPO practice is forever evolving, it can be helpful to conduct regular reviews of the kinds of marks being refused by the UK IPO. In the latest instalment of our seasonal round-up, we… Read more »
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO recently delivered its long-awaited decision in the consolidated cases G 1/22 and G 2/22, bringing much-needed clarity to the contentious issue of priority entitlement. This decision not only reaffirms the EPO’s authority to assess entitlement to priority but also upholds the validity of the “PCT Joint Applicants… Read more »
