Areas of Service | Innovations & Intellectual Property
Innovations & Intellectual Property
Our Innovations & Intellectual Property team offers a diverse range of services to our clients, to generate, register, evaluate, protect, enforce, and commercialise intellectual property rights. We also provide commercial advice relating to the acquisition and defence of clients' intellectual property.Middletons takes an innovative approach to determining the best methods for achieving protection of clients' intellectual property. This approach has included successfully applying for three-dimensional shape marks to protect the shape of products such as footwear and confectionery products.
Middletons also has extensive experience in the enforcement of intellectual property rights and has developed successful enforcement programs for a number of clients to ensure that any copy names or products are removed from the marketplace.
Our lawyers are recognised globally in providing the highest quality of technical and pragmatic commercial solutions relating to all aspects of intellectual property.
- patent, trade mark and design searches, applications, opposition proceedings and licensing
- conducting intellectual property audits to identify intellectual property which should be protected and/or commercialised
- copyright, patent, trade mark, confidential information and design advice and enforcement proceedings
- drafting technology licensing and distribution agreements, domain names advice, registration and removal applications.
We also advise on an array of issues that arise in the new age of eCommerce, privacy issues and provide strategic advice to keep ahead of the competition and achieve your business objectives.
