Intellectual Property
Find out how to identify, secure, and defend your business’s valuable intellectual property
How an experienced Legal Director can help you protect your business’s valuable intellectual property assets
Every business has intellectual property rights: trade marks, designs, patents, and copyright in written materials, software, website designs, or even databases. Those businesses that leverage their intellectual property assets from the outset increase their opportunities for growth and their ability to license technology, establish partnership agreements and attract investment.
Many businesses, however, don’t recognise all the Intellectual Property assets they have, and so fail to protect them properly or exploit their value. It is also not uncommon for businesses to think they own the copyright for material, when in fact they don’t. These mistakes can be costly to businesses, both financially and reputationally.
Over a business’s life cycle, Intellectual Property Rights change and, without vigilance and proper strategic thinking, many businesses inadvertently devalue their brand and its IPR.
How will The Legal Director work with you on intellectual property protection?
We can help you determine and protect your portfolio of IPR assets from inception and provide support and framework for its growth.
We can audit your current IPRs and advise on a strategic IPR plan of creation, protection, and registrations, making the most of your IPR investment as you grow.
We can ensure that the IPR clauses in your business contracts are accurate, up to date, and protect your interests effectively.
TLD also has vast experience of contracts for all types of personnel and contractors and can protect you against losing valuable IPR if an employee or director leaves, as well as ensuring you have appropriate and measured non-compete, NDAs and confidentiality clauses. These contracts will become a key part of the “fencing” that defines, protects and enhances the IPR assets themselves.
Our in-house intellectual property legal specialists are available flexibly to suit you. You can engage our lawyers on a retained, part-time basis to work on all your legal work including intellectual property. Or, we can come in for a trial period or for a discrete project to audit your IPR and provide you with a strategic IPR plan going forward.
If you would like to discuss this further, please contact us on 020 3056 8538 or info@thelegaldirector.co.uk.
