Intellectual Property
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SOLICITORS NORTH LONDON – COPYRIGHT ADVICE NORTH LONDON
Intellectual property law is wide ranging and of increasing importance and safeguards are generally needed against liabilities and to protect intellectual property rights and assets to avoid infringement and intellectual property litigation.
What is Intellectual Property ?
The term intellectual property can include :-
- Trademarks
- Design rights
- Patents
- Copyright
- Database rights
- Domain names
- Confidential information
- Data protection
- Freedom of information.
- Website law
What Intellectual property services do North London solicitors provide ?
- Advice on IP protection and drafting confidentiality agreements
- Intellectual property licences
- IP litigation
- Drafting and negotiating assignments of Intellectual Property
- Drafting and negotiating distribution, manufacturing, franchise, sponsorship and agency agreements
- Negotiating and drafting co-existence agreements
- Drafting and negotiating Collaboration and Research agreements
- Monitoring and policing IP infringement
Internet law
Websites must comply with laws and regulations and, if selling online or conducting marketing by electronic forms of communication, there are yet more regulations. The relevant pieces of legislation are:
- The Data Protection Act 1998
- Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002
- Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
Data Protection
Almost every business is affected by the Data Protection Act 1998 (”DPA”). Please see our Intellectual Property FAQ’s page for further information.
We can advise generally and also draft the following critical terms for a website:-
- Privacy Policies
- Website Terms and Conditions.