Intellectual property & Licensing

Intellectual property rights protect and encourage innovation and creativity. A business’ intellectual property can be its most valuable asset, underpinning its market positioning and guaranteeing its income streams.

Our specialist lawyers provide clients with advice and assistance on all areas of intellectual property, technology, media and e-commerce.

We have the in-depth experience necessary to help you best exploit and protect your intellectual property and our expertise covers everything from copyrights, trade marks and patents to designs, know-how and confidential information. We even specialise in plant variety rights!

Whether you need advice on patenting your invention, or you need to stop someone pirating your content, we can help.

We can offer advice on:

  • Copyright
  • Trade marks
  • Patents
  • Software
  • Domain name queries
  • Designs
  • Know-how
  • Confidential information
  • Goodwill
  • Freedom of information
  • Database rights
  • Franchises
  • Passing off
  • Company name clearance
  • IPR audits
  • Licensing
  • IP aspects of sales and acquisitions
  • IP due diligence
  • Registration of rights
  • Maintenance of IPR
  • Exploitation
  • Valuation
  • Data protection
  • Enforcement
Andy Braithwaite
Partner
Bristol
0117 930 9522
07785 950050
Graeme Fearon
Partner
Bristol
0117 930 9557
07717 573479