Patents
In today’s world intellectual property rights in general, and
patents rights in particular, are becoming increasingly important
to the future success of a business. This is true both for industry
sectors where there is a long history of using patent rights for
commercial gain, such as the life sciences sector, and those
industries where the use of patent rights is comparatively new (for
example, new media).
Our service
Our patents team has substantial industry-focused expertise
across all industry sectors to assist you in identifying,
capturing, protecting and exploiting your innovations.
Some of the services we provide include:
- strategic guidance and innovation audits
- patent validity and infringement clearance searches
- patent portfolio management
- challenges to third-party patents and revocation actions
- enforcement and dispute resolution
- portfolio evaluations and due diligence
- commercial exploitation, licensing and transfers
- tax and transfer pricing
- competition issues
- manufacturing, research and development agreements
- corporate technology commercialisations (including JVs, finance
raising, stock market listings)