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IP Update Autumn 2009


How to protect your intellectual property rights

Owners of valuable intellectual property rights arising as a result of their creative works and ideas will want to protect their rights, just as they would wish to protect any other kind of property they own. The protection and enforcement of IP rights often raises difficult questions about exactly what rights exist in a particular work, who created the work, who owns the rights, and what remedies are available and realistically achievable. Our team will help you to answer those questions and achieve the best practical solution.

In addition to advising on protection and enforcement of IP rights and responding to urgent and unexpected threats to those assets, our team also advise businesses on a wide range of other issues that arise out of the creation, ownership, exploitation and transfer of IP rights. The links below provide examples of legal issues that arise at the various stages of the lifecycle of IP rights and how we can help.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Health Check

Other sections of the site that you may be interested in are Corporate & Commercial, Dispute Resolution, and IT and E-Commerce

If you are a patent or trade mark attorney please look at our page outlining how we can work with you.

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