Intellectual Property Disputes
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights can be crucial to the success of your business. Protection can take many forms, from registration of trademarks/patents to ensuring that appropriate confidentiality clauses/intellectual property clauses are incorporated into your employee’s contracts of employment.
Intellectual Property Rights can arise without formal registration e.g. copyright or unregistered design rights.
Anti-competitive practices continue to frustrate businesses, whether it be an abusive registration of a domain name or passing off as connected to or associated with another company and or its products.
The Dispute Resolution Team has considerable experience in advising clients in relation to their rights and remedies arising from the following:
- Domain name issues
- Patent actions
- Copyright infringement
- Trademark infringement
- Registered and unregistered design right claims
- Passing off actions
- Misuse of confidential information
