| Exploiting your IP
A business’s Intellectual Property (IP) rights can be some of its most valuable assets. We can advise on how to exploit your IP to get the most commercial value out of your IP. This can take the form of examining how to use your IP as a marketing tool to generate more sales, as a defensive tool to deter potential competitors, or as a direct source of revenue by selling or licensing your IP. Enforcing your IP
Should you become aware that someone is potentially infringing any of your patents, trade marks, registered designs, copyrights or design rights, we can advise on an appropriate course of action to deal with the potential infringer. This can involve our preparing an infringement opinion, to fully consider whether there is an actual infringement of your rights, and, if there is, approaching the alleged infringer on your behalf to advise them of your rights.
Should a more forceful approach be required, we can advise on initiating legal action against the alleged infringer. Watching services
To help you keep an eye on what your competitors are doing, and to watch for potential infringements of your rights we offer various watching services, as follows:
- Patent subject matter watch: to monitor the publication of new patent applications and granted patents within a selected technical area.
- Patent name watch: to monitor the publication and grant of patents in specific company names.
- Trade mark watch: to monitor the advertisement of similar/identical trade marks for similar/identical goods/services as your registered trade mark, so that you can oppose new trade mark applications to prevent them becoming registered.
- Company name watch: to monitor the registration of company names that might infringe your registered trade mark.
- Internet/Domain name watch: to identify sites using similar domain names to your trade marks; to watch for diversion of website traffic to web sites using similar domain names to your trade marks; to watch for unauthorised linking relationships on web sites; to watch for offensive sites using your trade marks; to watch for the registration of your trademarks as domain names; and to watch for copycat web sites.
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