Intellectual property
Intellectual property.
Our firm has significant expertise of advising in the area of Intellectual Property Law. It is crucial that small businesses have proper support in protecting and safeguarding their intellectual property and our team of specialized lawyers will provide tailored support to clients with regard to a variety of matters. We can help clients create copyrights (e.g. in relation to software, audio, visual or literary materials or databases) and register trademarks, patents and design rights. We will also provide you with key strategic and practical advice in the event your intellectual property rights have been infringed.
Cross boarder Intellectual Property practice.
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Our cross-border intellectual property team supports the world’s leading businesses to invest in and protect global intellectual property portfolios.
With our specialist partners and associates worldwide, SKP offers an integrated, cross-border service to help clients dealing with the opportunities and threats brought by globalisation and technology.
We have a fully-fledged ICT department to back up our IP lawyers with a deep understanding of the sectors in which our clients operate.
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Commercial Intellectual Property.
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SKP’s commercial intellectual property team advises clients on the full range of commercial contracts relating to the exploitation of IP rights.
With the ever-growing focus on innovation, protecting and leveraging IP assets is crucial. SKP’s commercial IP lawyers work closely with our M&A and antitrust colleagues to provide coordinated advice on the full range of IP-rich transactions.
We advise on complex cross-border collaborations, joint ventures and strategic licensing deals involving parties all over the world.
Our experience spans the most complex transactions and includes:
• Licensing, joint ventures and collaborations
• Sales and other forms of disposal of IP rights, including warranty protection
• IP due diligence and verification, including related agreements
• Antitrust risks in licensing, joint venture and non-compete arrangements, including related to the settlement of patent disputes
• Procedures and negotiations of arrangements for parties seeking to exit, or in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of one party
• Distribution, agency, contract manufacture, supply, sponsorship and other commercial agreements
• IP-backed asset financing and taking security interests over IP assets, including royalty monetisation agreements
Patents.
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SKP top tier patent litigation team acts for the world’s leading companies in the most complex patent disputes.
SKP acts in multi-jurisdictional and national patent disputes across a range of sectors, particularly specialising in life sciences and technology. We represent clients in the many different courts and tribunals worldwide, leveraging the full range of dispute resolution methods to deliver commercial outcomes for clients.
We advise on the most significant and complex cases. We have also advised on cases involving Supplementary Protection Certificates and Second Medical Use.
A firm technical understanding is crucial to success. Many of our team members have technical backgrounds and industry experience and can advise with confidence in cases involving the most complex technologies.
Trade Mark, Designs and Copyright
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Trade mark, designs and copyright protection is critical to the creativity, innovation and investment that go into developing brands. SKP’s market-leading team helps today’s leading businesses to protect these significant company assets.
More than ever, the world’s top businesses need a strategic and coordinated global approach to Intellectual Property. Our pre-eminent global team has worked on some of the most complex, high-profile and often precedent-setting trade mark, designs and copyright cases of recent times.
Implementing and executing effective global dispute resolution strategies to defend brands is a key part of our expertise. We act for some of the world’s most valuable brands, devising litigation strategies that are effective at all levels of the relevant courts and tribunals
Trade Secrets
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SKP’s global Trade Secrets law practice is deeply resourced, with competent advocates.
Our rapid response in critical trade secrets cases has successfully prevented the exposure of confidential information, saving our clients millions of dollars and preventing the loss of critical competitive advantage.
With a track record of advising on some of the biggest and most significant trade secrets matters in the courts, we are well versed in quickly deploying local and international legal and regulatory tools to prevent the flow of confidential information across the globe. We work alongside our top-tier employment and commercial litigation teams to deliver a multi-disciplinary approach, as well as working closely with cybercrime teams in local, Regional and international enforcement agencies to complement civil measures.
Intellectual Property Disputes
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SKP is well known for its precedent-setting intellectual property disputes advice. We represent clients worldwide, at the highest level, in the many different courts and tribunals key to IP matters.
SKP’s global IP team understands how to exploit the procedural and tactical possibilities that different forums offer, coordinating regional and global litigation and settlement strategies to achieve the right business outcomes for clients.
A firm technical understanding of underlying IP assets is crucial. Many of our team members have technical backgrounds and industry experience to advise with confidence in cases involving the most complex science and technology.
Antitrust issues and arbitration considerations are also increasingly important in IP disputes: we work with our top-tier antitrust and arbitration practices to deliver a seamless service.
Our multi-jurisdictional litigation experience covers all areas of IP, including:
• Major patent litigation, including in the life sciences and technology sectors
• Trade mark litigation at all levels
• Trade secrets litigation, particularly in the finance and telecoms fields
• Design and copyright litigation, often with an emphasis on digital rights