Intellectual property is a general term that is used to describe a range of legal rights that attach to certain types of information and ideas. Your business needs to be aware of different intellectual property rights to ensure that they protect what they create, maximise their competitive position and avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Our commercial dispute resolution and avoidance specialists are able to assist you in those unfortunate situations where disputes arise, particularly when accusations are made or need to be made by your business of infringement.
Intellectual property rights tend to fall into two broad categories:
- Registered rights, such as those granted on application to an official body such as the UK Intellectual Property Office, as is the case with patents, trade marks and registered designs; or
- Unregistered rights, including copyright, unregistered design rights, rights in unregistered trade marks and confidential information.
Our specialists are able to assist you where disputes arise in relation to either registered or unregistered rights, either by protecting your business’s rights against an infringing third party or by responding to correspondence alleging that your business is in breach.
Our litigation team work closely with Harrison Drury’s corporate and commercial teams who can advise you on registering trade marks and other registered rights on your business’s behalf.
We frequently act in relation to opposition proceedings where a third party objects to your application to register a trade mark and, if appropriate, assist you in brokering mutually satisfactory resolutions.
To speak to our commercial dispute resolution and avoidance specialists please call us on 01772 258321 or make an enquiry below to see how we can assist you and your business.
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