Let us help you secure your intellectual property. Contact our specialists now to discuss your IP needs—whether for trademarks, audits, or dispute resolution.
Deborah Niven
Partner and Head of Intellectual Property
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Our Intellectual Property Solicitors help businesses and individuals identify, protect, manage and commercialise valuable IP, including brands, software, product designs, creative work, inventions, databases, confidential information and know-how.
Protecting your intellectual property properly can help you control how it is used, reduce the risk of misuse and create opportunities to grow its value.
Intellectual property
At Flint Bishop, our Intellectual Property Solicitors advise on trade marks, copyright, software rights, database rights, design rights, patents, confidential information and know-how. We also support clients with IP audits, IP strategy, licensing, assignments and disputes where rights need to be enforced or defended.
We understand that IP issues often arise at important moments for a business. You may be launching a new brand, developing technology, protecting an idea before investment, dealing with a competitor, licensing your work to someone else, or responding to an allegation that you have infringed another party’s rights. We will take time to understand what you have created, how it is used and what you want to achieve from it.
With Intellectual Property Solicitors in Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Sheffield, Swansea and York, Flint Bishop supports clients across England and Wales, with international support available through established partners in other jurisdictions where needed. Our IP team works with start-ups, established businesses and major PLCs across sectors including media, manufacturing, retail, sport, leisure, charities and technology.
Whether you need to register a trade mark, review your IP position, commercialise an asset or resolve an IP dispute, our Intellectual Property Solicitors will explain your options clearly and help you decide the next step. Contact our team today to discuss how we can help protect the value of your ideas, brand and innovation.
The services our Intellectual Property team offer include advice on obtaining, enforcing and exploiting the following:
We provide IP audits – a review of your business to identify both risks and opportunities. Based on this, we develop an intellectual property strategy to help you understand where protection is needed. We also offer a full service to apply for trade marks and manage registrations.
Intellectual property
Provided it meets certain eligibility criteria, your name, logo and any other aspect of your branding can be given greater protection by being registered as a trade mark.
We can provide you with all the assistance you need to obtain your registration in the UK and, working alongside our network of agents in other jurisdictions, further afield. Please see our trade mark registrations page for further information.
Your intellectual property is a valuable asset, and therefore can be sold, transferring the ownership to another party.
If you want to retain ownership and control of your intellectual property, then you may wish to license the IP instead. The licence can be drafted to suit your business needs and can be tailored by reference to aspects such as specific countries, duration, exclusivity, and scope of permitted use. Our IP solicitors can guide you through your options and advise on what is best for you.
Intellectual property
We are the leading choice for Intellectual Property Lawyers in Birmingham, Sheffield, York, Derby, Swansea, and Leeds.
Our experienced team can also help enforce your IP rights both in the UK and internationally and can advise on the best strategy to stop the infringement.
We can also support those who have been accused of infringement of someone else’s intellectual property. Please see our intellectual property disputes page for more information.
To contact the team, please call us on 0330 123 9501 or fill in the enquiry form on this page and we will get back to you.
Let us help you secure your intellectual property. Contact our specialists now to discuss your IP needs—whether for trademarks, audits, or dispute resolution.
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