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DACB's IP team is best known for intellectual property advice to novel tech businesses, medtech, media and brand management.

The team’s work includes advising synthetic media and AI clients, cryptocurrency.  We continue to advise on high profile media licensing and disputes, including licensing work for Royal Mail, IP advice for Aardman Animations and brand management for a range of clients.

The team is also one of the few outside London to conduct high value patent litigation, in particular for medtech and medical devices, including the High Court patent dispute between Fisher & Paykel and Flexicare over medical ventilator technology.

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Intellectual Property - South West

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

DAC Beachcroft in Bristol protects and commercialises intellectual property rights for healthcare, financial services, media and technology businesses. It is also noted for anti-counterfeiting, parallel import and trade mark infringement proceedings and is recommended for software licensing disputes.

Work Highlights

  • DAC Beachcroft advised gesture tracking and haptics company Ultraleap on the sale of its entire patent portfolio to US-based SIM IP.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrew Allan-Jones
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Band 1

Andrew Allan-Jones is an intellectual property and technology partner based at DAC Beachcroft's Bristol office. He offers a comprehensive commercial and contentious IP practice, covering all core rights.

Andrew is one of those lawyers with a deep understanding of patent law and who can do high court litigation. He is extremely responsive and clients love him, saying he is plain-speaking and pragmatic.

Andrew is a master at turning complexity into clear, simple guidance.

Andrew's impressive technical ability, deep understanding of our business and excellent problem-solving skills have been invaluable.

Andrew is easy to reach and quick to advise, and is always precise, concise, adaptable and pragmatic in doing so.

Andrew always has a comprehensive answer to my questions and I trust his advice.

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Kate Loxton
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Band 3

Kate Loxton has advised a range of high-profile public and private sector clients on their intellectual property portfolios and brand management. This has included ensuring international protection against infringement and advising on licensing negotiations.

She is really smart, easy to deal with and friendly on top of the brief.

Kate is extremely bright and provides practical, balanced and solutions-focused advice, always ensuring she understands the wider business aims and objectives.

She is great: she works well with us and is extremely responsive.

She is wonderful.

Kate was very responsive, live to the issues and commercially aware.

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Andrew Allan-Jones
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Kate Loxton
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Aardman Animations

Coretx

David ET Garman Concepts Limited

Emily Bond

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

NHS England

Royal Mail

St. James's Place

Ultrahaptics Limited

Unilever

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