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Intellectual Property

About

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Our Intellectual Property (IP) team is one of the leading national IP practices and is recognised as such by all of the key national and specialist international IP directories.

We provide strategic IP counselling including:

  • Freedom to operate and clearance advice
  • Advice on strategies for IP protection, registration and exploitation
  • IP licensing – including complex international and intra-group arrangements
  • IP transactions, due diligence and valuation
  • Regulatory advice

We also have extensive litigation experience across the full range of IP rights, including:

  • Patent, trade mark, copyright, and design litigation at all levels of the UK courts
  • Confidential information and trade secrets disputes
  • Brand protection and online enforcement
  • Employee competition and business protection disputes
  • Cyber fraud, data breaches and domain name complaints
  • Reputation management, defamation and privacy

We advise businesses across numerous sectors and have particular expertise in life sciences, technology and media, fashion, food and drink, gaming and sport.

Chambers Review

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Intellectual Property - The South

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What the Team is Known For

Stevens & Bolton advises a number of well-known brands on the protection, exploitation and enforcement of their IP rights. From its base in Guildford, the team regularly handles disputes relating to trade marks, designs, trade secrets and domain names. It represents SMEs and start-ups as well as multinational clients.

Work Highlights

  • Stevens & Bolton continuously advises Aspects Beauty on trade mark and brand protection matters. Recently the IP team successfully registered the Aspects Beauty trade marks in the UK.

Strengths

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Their understanding of our business and culture helps them bring guidance aligned with our company values and the authentic way we want to handle people matters and conduct our overall business.

Intellectual Property respondent
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They provided prompt and pragmatic advice which was invaluable in reaching a settlement with the other party.

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They come up with alternate solutions when issues come up. They have a network of colleagues and law firms around the world.

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Notable Practitioners

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Tom Lingard
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Tom Lingard
Head of Intellectual Property
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Tom Lingard's practice spans all core rights and he is head of IP at Stevens & Bolton. While primarily a litigator, he is also recommended for licence agreements of all kinds.

Tom provides an excellent service.

Tom is highly professional and exceptionally knowledgeable. He has demonstrated regularly that he has deep commercial awareness and supports us by being transparent and highlighting any risks.

He is a pleasure to work with and very commercially aware.

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Charlotte Tillett
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Charlotte Tillett
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Charlotte Tillett is recommended for commercial and contentious IP work across a diverse range of sectors, in particular life sciences and technology. She frequently advises on international licensing and collaboration arrangements.

Charlie is an outstanding lawyer.

Charlotte is an excellent lawyer and very easy to work with.

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Tom Lingard
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Tom Lingard
Head of Intellectual Property
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Charlotte Tillett
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Charlotte Tillett
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Band 2
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Tom Lingard

Tom Lingard

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