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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, each with their own experts on hand to provide you with exceptional client service – and the results you demand.


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.


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.

Chambers Review

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Intellectual Property - Midlands

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Shoosmiths in Birmingham offers a sophisticated full-service IP practice advising brands of all kinds, research universities, tech innovators and life sciences researchers on all manner of rights protection, commercialisation and litigation matters. The team has expertise in all rights, and notable recent experience with regard to research and development platforms and also patent litigation.

Work Highlights

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  • Shoosmiths continued to act as counsel for Dr Craig Wright in defending the Crypto Open Patent Alliance's claim that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrew Brennan
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Andrew Brennan
Head of Intellectual Property
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Band 3

Andrew Brennan is head of department at Shoosmiths in Birmingham. He is best known for his patent practice, which takes in prosecution, licensing and litigation. He also has experience representing clients in trade marks and copyright disputes. He acts for clients in a range of sectors, particularly technology, universities and manufacturing.

Andrew is very structured and always has an eye on the big picture and not just the issues directly addressed to him.

Andrew is not only an excellent patent litigator, he is also a consummate project manager. He knows how to set goals and build the team to achieve them.

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Shoosmiths LLP

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Intellectual Property

Andrew Brennan
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Andrew Brennan
Head of Intellectual Property
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Band 3

Members

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Andrew Brennan

Andrew Brennan

Head of Department

Dr Dominic Murphy

Imogen Francis

Nichola Jenkins

Clients

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AK Retail (Yours Clothing)

Dr Craig Wright

Jaguar LandRover

Next Retail Plc

Reliance Brands