Commercial Law
We advise on commercial law matters involving intellectual property, helping businesses structure agreements and commercial relationships around their intellectual assets. Our advice covers areas including licensing, collaborations, trade secrets, and the ownership and transfer of intellectual property rights. We help you establish clear legal frameworks that manage risk and support your business.
Experience
We have extensive experience in commercial law matters closely connected with intellectual property and innovation-driven businesses.
Expertise
Our Attorneys-at-law combine specialist expertise in intellectual property with experience in commercial agreements and related legal matters.
Advice
We help you draft, review and negotiate agreements, taking account of intellectual property rights, commercial interests and potential risks.
Agreements that support your business
Intellectual property and commercial law often go hand in hand. Creating value from innovations, trademarks and other intellectual assets requires clear agreements and legal structures that support your business objectives.
Whether you are licensing intellectual property, entering into research or commercial collaborations, or protecting trade secrets, it is important to clearly define rights, responsibilities and expectations. Well-drafted agreements reduce risk and provide a sound foundation for successful business relationships.
Questions and answers
Commercial law issues involving intellectual property often arise when rights need to be allocated, collaborations structured or intellectual assets commercialised. Below, we address some of the key questions relating to agreements, ownership and the protection of intellectual property rights.
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When employees, consultants, partners or research organisations contribute to development work, it is important to clearly establish who owns the results of that work and any intellectual property rights arising from it. Uncertainty over ownership and rights of use can create problems in connection with investments, acquisitions, collaborations or future commercialisation.
We help you ensure that ownership and rights of use are clearly defined and documented. This may, for example, be done through employment and consultancy agreements, collaboration agreements, assignment agreements or other contractual arrangements that reflect your business and the situation at hand. -
Many businesses rely on knowledge, data, business plans and technical information that needs to be handled with care. For information to qualify as a trade secret, appropriate measures need to be taken to keep it confidential, both within the organisation and when information is shared with partners, investors or other external parties.
Together with you, we assess what measures are appropriate based on the circumstances and the information involved. This may include confidentiality provisions in different types of agreements or separate non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), tailored to the context and the information to be protected. -
Successful cooperation depends on the parties having a clear understanding of their respective roles, responsibilities and rights. In research and development projects in particular, it is important to agree from the outset who will own the intellectual property created within the project and how each party may use the results.
Our advice includes drafting and reviewing research and development agreements, collaboration agreements, consultancy agreements and other commercial agreements. The terms reflect the nature of the cooperation and the parties’ needs, providing a clear framework for working together. -
Intellectual property can be commercialised in different ways, for example through licensing, assignments or other commercial arrangements. Choosing the right approach depends on the rights involved, how they are to be used and what the parties want to achieve commercially.
We advise on the structure and terms of licence agreements, assignments and other forms of IP commercialisation, and assist with drafting and negotiations. In doing so, we take account of both the relevant intellectual property and the commercial context, with a focus on finding a solution that works for the transaction and the parties.
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Patents
We help you protect technical innovations and develop a patent strategy aligned with your business objectives. We support you throughout the patent process – from initial assessment and filing to managing and developing patent portfolios.
Trademarks
We help you protect your trademarks and strengthen their long-term value. Our expertise spans trademark strategy, registration and ongoing portfolio management, providing a strategic approach to managing your trademark portfolio.
Design
We help you protect the appearance of your products and develop a well-considered strategy for your design rights. From initial assessment and registration to ongoing portfolio management, we ensure that your design protection evolves in line with the needs of your business.
Strategic IP Advice
We help you make strategic decisions about your intellectual assets in line with your business objectives. This may involve developing IP strategies, assessing freedom to operate and prioritising the right actions for your business.
IP Disputes
We help you navigate infringement matters, oppositions and other intellectual property disputes. We represent both rights holders and parties defending against third-party claims, developing a strategy tailored to each situation.