IP Audits

Our IP team is able to advise you across the board in the management, protection and enforcement of the broad range of your intellectual property including patents, trade marks, copyright, designs, and in issues arising from marketing and advertising, data protection and regulatory considerations.We can therefore offer our clients the full range of intellectual property services by providing strategic advice from the outset through to the successful exploitation of your IP rights. As part of that process, we can undertake an IP audit of your business to ensure that the intellectual property of your business is properly protected and to identify other potential IP rights that may need further or future protection. Our IP audit process includes ensuring that:

• the ownership of all copyright materials is clearly identified
• all trade marks and trade names are adequately registered
• any potential inventions or designs are earmarked for possible patenting or registration
• all confidential information is adequately protected
• all IP clearances have been obtained from third parties
• all potential acts of IP infringement by competitors is avoided by ensuring that all appropriate internal safeguard mechanisms and guidelines are put in place