We provide a comprehensive service to both established and new businesses on all commercial and legal issues including intellectual property, information technology, especially e-commerce and computer law, publishing, trade marks, technology transfer, distribution, agency and supply, competition law, inward investment and establishment in the UK, banking, pensions and employee benefit schemes and tax. The firm has a substantial trade mark registration practice, both in relation to UK national marks as well as Community trade marks and marks applied for under the Madrid protocol. We handle applications, objections, oppositions and revocation and invalidity proceedings.

We have extensive expertise in the national and international protection and commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights. This includes copyright, trade marks, know-how, patents, designs and multi-media rights.

Our role includes securing, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, negotiating contracts for the licensing and commercial exploitation of intellectual property; drafting technology licences and technical assistance agreements; drafting distribution, agency, supply and trading agreements; advising publishers and drafting publishing agreements and agreements for acquisition of rights; drafting franchising agreements; drafting confidentiality agreements; and registering designs and trade marks (including community trade marks and international registrations under the Madrid Agreement).