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Intellectual property/IT

Intellectual property plays a significant role in business success worldwide, so it is essential to develop sound and smart strategies to manage and protect your innovative products and services. AEL lawyers know the IP issues, challenges and concerns facing large and small enterprises and can provide creative solutions that preserve and protect your business concerns. Whether your company is regional, national, or multinational, it is operating in a global economy. Proprietary information moves instantaneously throughout your company’s network and valuable intellectual property is created every day in your business.

Our intellectual property and information technology lawyers can help your company design, build, acquire, license, secure, and defend these systems, processes, and assets around the corner or around the world. Securing and enforcing patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets builds value in your business and helps you stay ahead of the competition. To remain competitive, your business cannot afford to leave its intellectual assets unprotected or to forego enforcing its intellectual property rights.

Areas of expertise

  • Negotiation of patent-related transactions and drafting of licensing, consulting, and confidentiality agreements
  • Preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications
  • Patentability, infringement, freedom to operate use, and validity
  • Preparation and prosecution of trademark, service mark, and copyright applications
  • Trademark and copyright-related transactions,
  • Trademark and copyright infringement litigation, administrative proceedings, and preparation of entertainment contracts
  • Advising and litigation on trade secret protection
  • Drafting and negotiating complex information technology and telecommunicating contracts
  • Protecting and licensing copyrighted content
  • Privacy, defamation, electronic commerce, security, and encryption
  • Cross-border transfers
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Special Interest Groups

Intellectual Property/IT

AEL lawyers have set up a “Special Interest Group” (SIG) for this practice area, called “Intellectual Property”. This SIG enables all members to meet and exchange ideas and expertise as [...]

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Helen Cooper,
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European Lawyers

c/o Brabners LLP
Horton House
Exchange Flags
Liverpool, L2 3YL
United Kingdom

T +44 (0)151 600 3313
Fax +44 (0)151 600 3300
ael@brabners.com

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T +44 (0)151 600 3313
Fax +44 (0)151 600 3300
ael@brabners.com

Helen Cooper,
Association of
European Lawyers

c/o Brabners LLP
Horton House
Exchange Flags
Liverpool, L2 3YL
United Kingdom

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