Intellectual Property
We review risk areas and explain how to protect your business assets from exploitation and theft. We review licence agreements, commercial contracts and registration of IP and discuss areas for improvement.
Intellectual Property Solicitors
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Fees vary depending upon what you need. We will always quote for work before incurring costs. As a rough guide our fees to review intellectual property provisions in an agreement and discuss the commercial implications start at £950 plus VAT.
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Intellectual property is created by people. Therefore you should ensure that the business is protected from theft of its property by your people. Post termination employment restrictions are an important step.
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When you come to sell your business the buyer will want to see that intellectual property rights have been registered and maintained. We can check this out for you.
Intellectual property is now a huge part of today’s economy. Our job is to spot both the commercial opportunities and the risks. Protection of intellectual property can take a number of shapes from registration of your ideas, setting up the right contracts and structures to taking action to defend your intellectual property.
Identifying and protecting your IP
Identifying intellectual property rights should be a focus for all businesses, whether you are an entrepreneur, start-up, SME or international organisation. IP is not just for technology startups. All businesses face competition and a good awareness and protection of your IP rights goes a long way towards giving you a competitive advantage and strong brand which you can monetise.
Some IP rights arise automatically but others (and in particular stronger, more easily enforceable forms of protection) need to be registered at the appropriate Registry.
Our IP services
Many smaller businesses are concerned about the costs involved in protecting their IP. Our team is experienced in carrying out IP audits to identify both your rights and your risks. We work with you to determine what your business needs and keep costs to a minimum.
Our services include:
- IP contracts
- Buying, selling or investing in IP assets or businesses with IP
- Software contracts
- Software licensing agreements
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Data Protection
- Copyright and domain name advice
- Trademark registration and infringement
- Database rights and protection
- Design rights
- Confidential information theft, non-disclosure breaches and trade secret leaks
- Brand and reputation protection
- IP aspects of corporate transactions
- Raising finance for IP
- IP contracts
- Protecting trade secrets
- IP joint ventures
Recent experience
Read about how we have assisted clients and discover more about our approach and experience to solving IP legal and commercial issues for clients :-
- App development
- Ownership of IP
- Brand portfolio management
- Disclosure of confidential information
- Copyright dispute
- Trademark protection
- IP licensing work
Our approach
We are focused on private companies. That means we understand the constraints they face and act accordingly. Nobody, large or small businesses, wants to end up in court. The process is so slow the intellectual property is often out of date by the time the case is heard. Aware of the realities we offer highly specialised IP legal support to businesses of all types and sizes in the core areas where they are most likely to need. So wherever you are in the business life cycle, our lawyers have the skills and commercial know-how to help.
We work with you to progress to the next stage by making full use of your intellectual property assets – and keeping it cost-effective in the process.
Get in contact to discuss how we can help you.
Brian Miller
02074381067
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brianmiller@gannons.co.uk
Our team responds to queries and about what can be done. Focused on private companies we know how to be precise and practical. Intellectual property is such a broad term it covers virtually all assets a company uses (apart from bricks and water). Amassing years of experience we have ideas on how to protect your business from threat. Our work ranges from registration of trade marks, protection of copyright, publishing and licensing arrangements through to cease and deist letters. Review and modelling of commercial licences and other business contracts form a key area of where we can help. Your employees have access to a great deal of intellectual property which needs protecting as far as is practical. We work with employers to review and enforce terms in employment agreements designed to deter the employees from sharing for example your contacts with a competitor.