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Intellectual Property
Our Intellectual Property team understands the increasingly complex areas of copyright, trade marks, patents, designs, trade secrets and other intellectual property law.
Our Intellectual Property team understands the increasingly complex areas of copyright, trade marks, patents, designs, trade secrets and other intellectual property law.
Our leading Intellectual Property team has a wealth of experience advising on all aspects of intellectual property, both contentious and non-contentious, including trade marks, passing off, copyright, patents, designs, trade secrets and database rights.
We work with domestic and international clients across a diverse range of industries, including technology, pharmaceuticals and medical products, financial services, food and food services, consumer goods and services (including luxury goods) and media and entertainment.
Our established trade marks team assists businesses and brands with brand creation, registration, maintenance and enforcement and manages a large number of well-known trade mark portfolios for clients. The team includes three practitioners who are Registered Trade Mark and Design Agents.
We also have extensive experience working with clients to identify and formulate strategies for securing and commercialising IP assets, including advising on complex intellectual property licensing arrangements; R&D collaboration agreements; and international franchise agreements.
Our team frequently advises clients in the media and entertainment sector in respect of rights issues relating to music, film and television projects, from development stage through to production and distribution and beyond.
In the patent-dependent sectors of pharmaceutics, biotechnology, medical devices, life sciences and manufacturing our lawyers help clients with compliance and challenges to IP rights in these highly regulated sectors.
We routinely help our clients to devise and implement programs to tackle counterfeiting, piracy, screen-scraping, cyber-squatting, spamming and other infringing acts. We prosecute and defend challenges and disputes and regularly take enforcement actions against infringers.
‘The team was exceptionally helpful in outlining the risks associated with intellectual property, and the ownership and purchase of the same. The team helped us work through different opportunities to mitigate risk.’ Recommended for Intellectual Property.
‘Everyone we worked with in LK Shields was knowledgeable, friendly, flexible with scheduling and just overall extremely helpful in guiding us through the asset purchase process.’ Recommended for Intellectual Property.
‘The team are exceptionally personable and bring the information required down to an understandable level for clients who are not experts in this field.’ Recommended for Intellectual Property.
‘The team has strength in depth, responsive and commercial.’ Recommended for Intellectual Property.
Recommended for Intellectual Property.
‘There is strength in depth with the LK Shields team and they give commercial, pragmatic advice in a timely fashion. A real extension of our own team.’ Recommended for Intellectual Property.
"Very responsive, commercial and pragmatic."
"They have real strength in depth. Every member is very commercial, pragmatic and great with clients." Recommended for Intellectual Property.
"They understand our business well from a commercial standpoint." Recommended for Intellectual Property.
'The team is very proactive, commercial, and easy to deal with. They are responsive and have good strength in depth.' Recommended for Intellectual Property.
The "well-regarded" team is recommended for Intellectual Property.
Recommended for Intellectual Property.
Recommended for Trade mark contentious
LK Shields offers 360-degree counsel to clients, astutely escorting both emerging and established businesses through registration and prosecution and valiantly defending their rights in the most heated disputes.
Recommended for Intellectual Property.
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