Intellectual property disputes

While the management, protection and exploitation of intellectual property (IP) rights are core to most businesses, the value to any company of its brands can be priceless and needs protection from any infringement and abuse of their patent and copyright.

Our team provides a comprehensive and seamless service to assist our clients whenever and wherever instances of infringement arise around the world. We represent clients in courts of law and before intellectual property offices and arbitral panels and in mediations providing a legal service that combines judgment with experience.

Typical issues dealt with by the Penningtons Manches Cooper IP team include brand protection, the sale of infringing products, passing off, breach of confidential information and know-how, and recording other artists’ songs. We have also developed Make your Mark™ - a complete brand protection service to help you identify and establish a tailored branding strategy.

We have extensive experience of advising on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and have been involved in resolving many significant copyright, trade mark, patent and know-how infringement and ownership disputes - as well as cases involving parallel importation, breach of confidence, anti-counterfeiting and misleading advertising.

Our clients include public and private companies, owner-managed businesses, institutions, start-up companies, sole traders and individuals involved in a variety of sectors including retail, publishing and media, automotive, consumer electronics, pharma, IT, hotels and leisure services, and food.