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Intellectual Property

About

Provided by Stevens & Bolton LLP

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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Band 1

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

Provided by Stevens & Bolton LLP

  • Stevens & Bolton advised Brighton & Hove Albion football club on trade mark and brand protection matters.

Strengths

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The team was very pragmatic, strategic and worked to tight time frames.

Intellectual Property respondent
UK

The firm exemplifies reliability, integrity and professionalism. They are possibly the most responsive law firm I have ever dealt with, treating our business needs as a priority.

Intellectual Property respondent
UK

The team at Stevens and Bolton are extremely responsive, understand the needs of clients very well and have a very broad set of teams to cover every aspect of what a commercial client needs.

Intellectual Property respondent
UK

S&B are very thorough, knowledgeable, experienced people who speak to you in a normal manner making complicated matters easy to understand.

Intellectual Property respondent
UK

They were on hand whenever we needed them, giving us peace of mind whenever we had a question or obstacle to overcome. They explained how the negotiations were going in a clear and understandable way.

Intellectual Property respondent
UK

Notable Practitioners

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Tom Lingard
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Tom Lingard
Head of Intellectual Property
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Band 1
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 was completely on top of our situation and provided a high level of service.

Tom assisted us with a very tough case last year. He provided an excellent service.

I couldn’t be happier with Tom’s performance.

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Charlotte Tillett
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Charlotte Tillett
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Band 2
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.

Charlotte is excellent.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Stevens & Bolton LLP

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Intellectual Property
Tom Lingard
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Tom Lingard
Head of Intellectual Property
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Band 1
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Charlotte Tillett
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Charlotte Tillett
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Band 2
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Members

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Tom Lingard

Tom Lingard

Head of Department