We draft, file, and prosecute Applications
for
British Trade Marks,
European Community Trade Marks (CTM),
Madrid Protocol Trade Marks,
and foreign national
Trade Marks through to Registration before the relevant authorities
throughout the world. We draft Franchise Agreements and licences for our
clients, and handle on behalf of our clients, all oppositions,
revocations actions, and other disputes with third parties.
Registered Designs
We draft, file, and prosecute Applications
for British Registered Designs,
European Community Designs (ECD) ,
and foreign national Designs through
to Registration before the relevant authorities. We draft licence Agreements
to enable our clients to licence their Registered Designs and un-registered
Design Rights to third parties, and handle on behalf of our clients all
oppositions, revocations actions, and other disputes with third parties.
Investigations
IPR Audits
We conduct independent audits of our client's technology to
identify whether there are any patentable inventions that should be protected,
or whether there are any potential Registered Designs, Trade Marks or
enforceable unregistered Design Rights that can be protected. This
service is more specifically of interest to individuals, start up companies
and their advisors, investors and those proposing to fund innovation to ensure
their investment is as fully protected as possible. The service is also of
benefit to solicitors and companies acquiring other undertakings by
acquisition or merger. Where appropriate we can put start-up companies and
individuals in contact with possible sources of funding to enable them to
protect their technology appropriately.
Established Companies too can benefit from a technology
audit of their existing projects and future projects to enable them to
maximize profits by protecting their investment in their projects. Investment
companies and venture capital companies assessing value of IPR are able to
make better informed decisions once an audit has been carried out by us.
Validity & Infringement
opinions
We conduct investigations into the validity of one's own patents ahead
of seeking to enforce patents against others, and carry out validity
investigations of third party patents that may pose a threat against our
clients.
Due Diligence Investigations
So often individuals or start up companies launch a product on the market
without first finding out who their competitors are, and whether there is any
patent, Trade Mark or Registered Design owned by someone else that the would
effectively stop them dead in their tracks. We carry out independent
investigations on prior published patents and identify possible competitors
(or potential licensees) and possible threats, and advise on strategies to
circumvent or overcome problems if possible before they become a reality.
All of the above Services are provided in accordance with
our Standard Terms of Business (available
on request).
