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Intellectual Property
If you are creative as a web designer, software designer, IT consultant, copywriter, graphic designer, author, artist or inventor you will wish reasonably to protect your ideas and creations.Likewise, as an employer you will want to ensure that staff who create products/work using your resources are bound to grant the ownership of the same to you.
We have advised on the above and can help you protect your ownership of such assets that affect the valuation of your business and against which lending may be sourced.
We cover:
- Confidentiality
- Copyright
- Data protection,ownership and control
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Design agreements
- Employment contracts-Intellectual Property provisions
- Agency agreements
- Consultant/contractor agreements
- Outsourcing
The UK Intellectual Property Office (formerly the Patent Office) offers a dispute resolution service which is aimed at preventing unnecessary litigation over patent disputes. The new opinions service allows anyone to request an opinion on any UK patent, or...
Anyone processing personal data must comply with the eight enforceable principles of good practice. Here is a checklist. Data must be: fairly and lawfully processed; processed for limited purposes; adequate, relevant and not excessive; ...
The House of Lords has ruled that a patent application which was effectively anticipated by a prior invention cannot be valid. The case involved a method of chemical synthesis for an antidepressant drug, which was the subject of an international patent...
The European Commission has issued a statement confirming that the Directive on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Article 2 of Directive 2004/48/EC), which came into effect on 30 April 2005, covers, in effect, all intellectual property (IP) rights,...
Under the continuing integration of UK and EU law, trade mark law is being changed to require an opponent who bases his opposition to an application to register a trade mark on the basis that they hold similar ones to show proof of actual use of those marks....
One of the biggest sources of disputes in industries based on innovation is a difference of opinion about who owns the intellectual property (IP) created in terms of designs, software, processes and systems. This is a general guide for businesses to the...
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