Intellectual Property Law

The Lawyers at our firm are individually trained to offer quality advisory, drafting, and advocacy services, in both contentious and non contentious areas of Intellectual Property Law. Our firm covers the whole range of Intellectual Property Law, in both domestic and international context, as this area of law is of vital importance to all our commercial clients.

Our Lawyers have also worked with Lawyers in other jurisdictions, to ensure that our client’s needs are fulfilled, as promptly as possible and to the highest standard. Our Lawyers have the ability of reaching settlements whilst negotiating and also have extensive experience appearing before all Courts. In addition to the extensive expertise in civil actions, our Lawyers specialise in criminal enforcement of Intellectual Property rights.

The range of work undertaken includes:

  • Patents
  • Design right infringement (registered and unregistered)
  • Opposition to registration
  • Database rights
  • Copyright and related rights
  • Trademark infringement and passing off
  • Unfair competition and restraint of trade
  • Domain names
  • Performing rights
  • Rights of privacy
  • Data protection and generally confidential information
  • Contractual matters relating to Intellectual Property

Our Lawyers also undertake Intellectual risk assessment and advice on proposed new ventures and protection of Intellectual Property rights. They also register trademarks and designs.

Understanding our clients business and policies is vital to successfully ensuring our clients best interest. We advise on all aspects of competition matters including regulatory and trade issues, merger control, licensing and distribution, intellectual property, abuse of dominance, cartel investigations and related damages claims. Competition related litigation together with the resolution of compensation issues arising from competition infringements is our main focus. Our Lawyers also advise and assist with the preparation of agreements and notifications and hearings before competition authorities.

Our Lawyers are known for their original approach when representing clients and are committed to ensuring best results.

Our team of Lawyers have the ability of reaching settlements whilst negotiating and also have extensive experience appearing before all Courts. The team undertakes cases where the issue of quantum involves considerable legal or factual complexity. A caring service is necessary in such cases and our Lawyers have this attribute.

Our Lawyers undertake cases of all levels of seriousness, including:

  • Birth injury cases
  • Paediatric cases
  • Brain damage claims
  • Fatal injuries
  • Delay in the diagnosis of illness or failure to diagnose illness
  • Negligently carried out spinal and orthopaedic surgery
  • Failed plastic and cosmetic surgery
  • Failed sterilisation
  • Inappropriate drug therapy
  • Inappropriate dental & associated treatment
  • Gynaecological errors in surgery
  • Ophthalmic

Our Lawyers are fully aware of the developments of banking and finance law and are dedicated as well as proficient in providing solutions to complex banking and financial matters. The specialist and reliable knowledge of our team concerning the problems encountered in this field enables our lawyers to provide results on some of the most complex business issues. Our Lawyers represent clients in all types of Banking Law and Financial disputes before all Courts.

The work undertaken by our lawyers includes:

  • General Banking
  • Banker/Customer disputes
  • Recovery of loans (debt collection)
  • Hire purchase agreements
  • Corporate Restructuring and insolvency
  • Development financing and security structures for borrowers and lenders
  • Methods of financing business and transactions
  • Construction as well as project finance and asset finance
  • Money laundering
  • Mergers and acquisitions

The broad range of civil work is divided across a number of practice areas including discrimination law, personal injury, contract disputes, property disputes and human rights law.

Our Lawyers use their knowledge in civil courts, to extend their work into other areas such as negligence claims including clinical negligence and other civil, employment as well as criminal claims.