Commercialising Your Intellectual Property (“IP”) Rights
Unlike as in many other legal firms, our intellectual property specialist (who is legally qualified in several jurisdictions) worked for many years in a series of commercial roles for major multi-national companies, negotiating IP deals at first-hand, in dozens of countries.

Accordingly, we can offer to you an intellectual property rights legal service augmented by substantial commercial experience and success, as well as a full awareness of the challenges, difficulties and opportunities of the area.

You may come to us with a business concept seeking creative answers, to help to turn your ideas into profitable commercial reality. If so, we will be happy to augment your legal requirements with appropriate, entrepreneurial tactics.

Part of our overall advisory process can be an ‘audit’ of your intellectual property rights portfolio. This would be carried out to ascertain whether or not you are exploiting it to the fullest extent. Here, our aim would be to explain the balance between commercial pragmatism and legal best practice – then, jointly, we can reach a balanced way forward for your business.

Commercialising your Information Technology (“IT”) Rights
Our intellectual property specialist has also worked on IP applications while employed in an information technology company. So we can offer you both legal and commercial advice in the fields of IT rights, including e-commerce.

Such advice may include the drafting and, if required, the negotiation of agreements for the supply, support and maintenance of software and hardware items, plus any ancillary services.

If your IT business relates to e-commerce, we can assist you in the legal and commercial issues involved. This could be in the spheres of e.g. website design, development, operation and maintenance.

Again, if required, we can provide you with an ‘audit’ of your website and of your e-commerce activities. This would embrace an examination of your compliance with laws and regulations in this swiftly-changing IT rights and obligations area. In the event that we should find any deficiencies, we would suggest ways to address them.

For more information about this please contact David Main at dm@wdavies.com  or Graham Mott on gm@wdavies.com