Ideas are fragile
Our intellectual property lawyers provide clear advice aimed at protecting and obtaining value from all your IP assets, past, present and future.
As a team we work with you to understand your business, not just the legal matters at hand. It’s a deeper level of engagement that makes our advice both strategic and tailored.
Rather than simply reacting to problems, our IP solicitors take a proactive approach, offering guidance on registering trademarks, discoveries or inventions—even where there might not be immediate recognition that a value exists.
Specialist knowledge and experience count in this technical area
While every business in every industry has some IP, many of the team’s lawyers have backgrounds in IP-rich industries like media, technology, and manufacturing. Their sector-specific experience enables them to offer more nuanced, business-focused guidance.
Although we do not employ in-house patent attorneys, we have cultivated strong relationships with patent firms. This policy enables us to focus on the broader commercial issues and integrate technical IP expertise when needed.
Combining IP experience with IT expertise
The breadth of our expertise across our commercial advisory advice service allows us to offer comprehensive support on the range of legal issues that surround your IP use.
Our IP and IT teams leverage the overlap between the two areas, such as in cases of software piracy that involve both IT and IP issues, as well as IP exploitation arrangements where IP issues combine with IT considerations like drafting software agreements and licenses.
The Howes Percival’s Intellectual Property lawyers support your business in all aspects of IP advice and guidance, including:
- Trademark and copyright infringement disputes
- Design right infringement
- Passing off claims
- Defamation and privacy issues
- Trademark filing and registration
- Trademark assignments and licensing
- Copyright and design right protection
- IP audits and portfolio management
Our Intellectual Property solicitors in Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Leicester, Manchester, Northampton, Norwich and Oxford are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
Greener Litigation
Greener Litigation is an initiative to reduce the environmental impact of dispute resolution.
We are a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge which means, amongst other things, that we take all reasonable steps to reduce our environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions.
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