About our intellectual property disputes services at Wright Hassall

OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES TEAM

HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU INTELLECTUAL

PROPERTY DISPUTES

Our intellectual property dispute solicitors advise businesses and individuals on how to manage, protect and properly exploit the intellectual property they have developed within brands, inventions, designs, know-how and literary, artistic and musical works.

We have a reputation as proactive problem-solvers, giving clear, pragmatic and commercial advice that enables clients to make the most of their intellectual property rights and resolve disputes at the earliest opportunity on favourable terms. We provide a bespoke service and are committed to getting clients the best results when it matters the most. Our team has particular experience in the financial services, manufacturing and automotive, and technology, digital economy, and creative sectors. We are frequently retained in matters relating to:

• Disputes about the use of confidential information, copyright and databases, especially in the context of the termination of employment

• The infringement or passing-off of branding, trade marks and domain names

• The unlicenced exploitation of design rights

• The unauthorised use of proprietary software

OUR CREDENTIALS

SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISPUTES WORK…

We have a vast amount of experience across the team. Some recent examples that give an idea of the level of work we regularly undertake are:

• Successfully settling a claim against a medical indemnity insurer, in respect of an alleged infringement of database rights and an alleged misuse of confidential information by a former employee of the claimant, another medical indemnity insurer.

• Assisting the subsidiary of a major manufacturer of automotive chassis and body components to undertake proceedings in the Company Names Tribunal to order a competitor to change its name to a name that is not confusingly similar to our client’s name.

• Advising a leading engineering research and development business in connection with proceedings against a professional sports team which had sought to exploit the client’s patented technology without licence terms and achieving a satisfactory settlement for our client before trial.

• Acting for a major business software reseller in a substantial dispute with a blue-chip former customer relating to subsistence and infringement of intellectual property rights in a legacy database and system.

• Representing a major leisure operator in a passing off dispute with a parking operator who held themselves out as the official off-site car parking provider for major events taking place at our client’s facility.

• Continuing to represent a leading manufacturer of measurement instruments in a long-running dispute concerning claims in relation to unauthorised use of its proprietary software.

• Advising a client in relation to the defence of a claim for the alleged infringement of copyright and design right of a high value, award-winning lighting system.

• Assisting a technology services provider to the telecommunications sector to satisfactorily settle a dispute about the ownership of and rights to exploit its technology platform.