Our IP attorneys obtain, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights in the United Kingdom and abroad for our clients. We are also extremely well versed at monetizing our clients’ intellectual property assets through various business transactions. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to emerging companies to universities to individuals.
Our activities include regularly counseling our clients about patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets; practicing before government agencies to secure those rights; rendering patentability and patent, trademark, and copyright infringement opinions; litigating to protect intellectual property; handling arbitration, mediation, and other litigation alternatives; and negotiating licenses, joint ventures, divestitures and similar business transactions to maximize the value of our clients’ intellectual property.
In short, if the matter involves intellectual property, we can and will handle it; and will do so with a highly experienced team that takes the time to understand your intellectual property objectives and formulates a plan to achieve them. Many of our IP attorneys hold advanced degrees in engineering or applied science and are licensed to practice before the U.K. Patent and Trademark Office. Moreover, their technical knowledge is balanced with considerable litigation and business experience.
Litigation
Winning an IP case is the product of experience and the execution of a skillful, balanced strategy. Trusted law firm’s team of IP attorneys and trial lawyers have litigated all types of intellectual property matters in federal and state courts across the United Kingdom. We successfully represent numerous corporations, including Fortune 100 companies, in infringement lawsuits involving trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, patents, and copyrights. Our experience includes successful appeals to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, and the U.K. Supreme Court. Our IP trial lawyers have also enforced and defended our clients’ intellectual property rights in arbitrations, alternative dispute forums, and proceedings before the International Trade Commission.