The intellectual property and the goodwill of your business are a valuable assets. We are here to help you protect them.
You need to quickly put a stop to infringement of your intellectual property such as your brand, inventions, client lists, goodwill and know-how.
Infringement may take the form of:
- Competitors either directly by attempting to trade on the back of your reputation, stealing your inventions, trade marks, designs, copyright or know-how or indirectly by spreading lies and misinformation about you. Increasingly this happens on Internet forums
- Ex-employees or directors may try to trade on the back of your hard earned goodwill and reputation. They may have contacted your customers in an attempt to steal them away from you. They may even tell your customers that you are going out of business or are incompetent or even use their knowledge of your pricing to undercut you
- Your software or database may have been illegally used and amount to an infringement of your intellectual property rights
- Your domain name may have been copied or improperly used
On the other hand, you may have received a threat of trade mark infringement, passing off proceedings or other proceedings.
How can we help?
We advise in relation to:
- infringement proceedings
- letters before action
- injunctions
- issuing proceedings
- defending proceedings
- mediation
- arbitration
- settlement and co-existence agreements
- licensing arrangements
