Intellectual Property

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Provided by Shoosmiths LLP

Unlocking the potential of your ideas and protecting your brand and assets.

From market-leading advice on global intellectual property disputes, and guidance on how to safeguard and grow your brand, to navigating the complexities of drug discovery and development, Shoosmiths’ IP team can provide you with the very best advice to protect, enhance and enforce your intellectual property assets. Our IP services fall into five key areas:

• Consumer Brands
• Technology and Innovation
• Life Sciences
• Universities and Research Organisations

Within these areas, we cover all intellectual property rights, including trade marks and passing off, patents, confidential information, copyright, designs and database rights and related regulatory issues.

Our team is particularly known for handling complex IP disputes across a range of industries and technologies. With a number of prominent IP litigators in our team, our deep experience allows us to give you an advantage with innovative and creative approaches to handling disputes, including guaranteed price certainty through our unique IP Fixed™ product.

Given the global nature of IP, we frequently advise on and coordinate cross border transactions and disputes, often as part of an international team of lawyers.

IP FIXED™ Shoosmiths' extensive IP litigation experience gives us the ability to provide realistic scoping and agree fixed fees for different stages of the dispute resolution process, from pre-action through to trial.