Intellectual Property and Technology
Intellectual Property and Technology are increasingly important and valuable assets for all businesses. Our team has experience of all forms of Intellectual Property and Technology (IPT). We work with organisations whose IPT is at the heart of their business, and with those addressing IPT issues for the first time.
We will take time to identify your core Intellectual Property to understand fully how this is used in your organisation. We can then advise you on strategies to protect, manage, develop and commercially exploit your IP rights and the technology products you offer. For bought-in IT and other technology that your business relies on, we will help you manage the relationship with the supplier so you can meet your objectives and manage the key risks.
Our IPT specialists
Our IPT specialist lawyers have worked in this area for many years. We come from leading Intellectual Property practices, and have considerable experience of all forms of IPT in both the contentious and commercial fields.
We have worked for clients in a broad range of sectors including leisure and entertainment, food and drink, retail, manufacturing, housing, charities, healthcare, finance and technology. Some members of the team have in-house experience, and others have specialist professional qualifications in Intellectual Property and Technology. All members of the team share a practical and commercial approach.
Our services
Services we can offer include:
- Intellectual Property Audits - identifying your rights, how these are used and how they might be at risk
- Technology Supplier Advice - finalising the standard terms and conditions you offer to customers or resellers, advising on negotiated contracts, and wider business advice such as finance, joint ventures and business sale, purchase and merger
- Advice for Buyers of ICT Defined - working with your team to negotiate contracts for business-critical systems or services. Contracts could include server hosting and other outsourcings, buying a new e-commerce website, service level agreements, change controls, and buying business management software
- ICT Risk and Compliance Advice - helping you build compliance and risk management into your business, with advice on website regulations, defamation, confidentiality, discrimination, consumer law, data protection and your contractual obligations
- Branding Advice - providing guidance on trademark or domain name registrations, brand launches or re-branding exercises and preparing comprehensive enforcement strategies, including action against spite sites and internal education policies
- Protection of Ideas - advising on confidentiality agreements, registration of rights such as patents, designs and trademarks, and how to protect your unregistered rights such as copyright and database rights
- Exploitation of Your Rights - preparing licences, assignments and distribution agreements of your IP rights, and recommending ways to increase royalty or other revenue streams
- Development of Your IP - advising on internal R&D, collaboration agreements and joint ventures with third parties to develop and expand your rights
- Enforcement of Your IP - preventing the infringement of your rights or resolving ownership disputes, whether by negotiation or through formal proceedings
Getting in touch
For more information on any aspect of our Intellectual Property and Technology services, please call Sarah Webb or David Hall on 0121 212 7402. Alternatively you can e-mail sarah.webb@anthonycollins.com or david.hall@anthonycollins.com