Intellectual property

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The law on intellectual property seeks to protect your rights as a creator/owner of works/products which can take many forms such as an invention, manuscript, piece of software, to name but a few examples.

The main Intellectual property rights are patent, trade marks, copyright and design. Intellectual property law seeks to protect the rights of the creators of products and is an extremely complicated specialist area

We at Samuels can advise you on the following intellectual property related matters:

trade mark registrations

licensing agreements

“passing off” issues

issues under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

remedies for the enforcement of intelluctual property rights

issues concerning confidential information, breaches, position of employees, remedies and defences

issues under the Patent Act 1977

Trade marks, copyright and computer related copyright issues has become increasing important in recent years, as companies invest more each year in developing brands and other material covered by this increasingly technical subject. Increasing importance is now placed on international protection on intellectual property issues.