Chambers Review
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Intellectual Property - North East
What the Team is Known For
Muckle offers a strong IP practice with clients ranging in size from emerging regional businesses to multinational brands across a variety of sectors including technology and the creative industries. The team is noted for portfolio management, anti-counterfeiting, and trade mark and copyright disputes. It offers expert advice on sponsorship and image rights to clients in sport, with additional expertise with regard to broadcasting rights agreements and merchandising contracts.
Strengths
They provided really actionable advice and knew what we needed as a company. They were very clear on our options and the logical steps we needed to take.
They were fantastic and helped us to understand what we were trying to achieve, allowing us to better understand our own vision for the project and providing clarity on what we could and couldn't do.
Work Highlights
Muckle advised ClearCourse in relation to IP ownership, data protection compliance and wider software issues.
Notable practitioners
Alex Craig's non-contentious IP practice is centred on licensing deals, joint ventures, brand protection and portfolio management. She is head of the commercial team at Muckle.
Alex speaks with experience and she is diplomatic: she knows how to put things in a way that is palatable to everyone and manages expectations.
George Festing has significant experience litigating music and digital media copyright infringement cases, and is also recommended for trade mark, designs and patent disputes.
George was very good on advice and at clearly explaining the situation to us.
George is very calm and would think outside the box for his suggestions. He always had a good approach, and his experience was a contributing factor in getting a good result.