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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.
We work with clients across all industry sectors to put in place effective strategies for the protection and commercialisation of their intellectual property (IP).
The IP strategy should be aligned with a company’s business strategy and, simply put, is a plan to acquire IP assets and/or leverage the most value from existing IP assets.
In order to maximise the use of a company’s IP assets we work with our clients to identify the IP assets they have and carry out an IP audit, helping to determine:
We understand that clients want to monetise and exploit their IP assets to achieve their business goals and we work with them to do this in line with the agreed strategy; and with a commercial focus.
Should matters become litigious we also develop litigation strategies which include putting procedures in place to improve potential contentious positions and coordination of cross-jurisdictional disputes.
After contributing as part of the group providing the CIPA response to the UKIPO consultation on standard essential patents, AA Thornton’s Geoff Hussey recently took part in panel discussion on SEPs and IP at the delayed “CIPA Computer Technology Spring Seminar”, chaired by Simon Davies. The impressive list of speakers included M Jorge Cardoso of… Read more »
Each year on the 26th April, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, to remind ourselves how intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) encourage innovation and creativity. This year’s World Intellectual Property Day campaign celebrates the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of the women who are driving change in our world and shaping our… Read more »
