Your challenges
Intellectual property matters – patents, a pillar of technology; copyright, the lifeblood of media and IT; trade marks underpin your brand. But only if you can enforce them – and afford to enforce them. Avoiding infringing the intellectual property – of others, ensuring freedom to operate, and negotiating the minefields – matters too. Either way, disputes and how to manage them, are always on the horizon.
Achieving your ambitions
Since Dickens, disputes over intellectual property have been the butt of critical comment: too expensive, too slow, too uncertain. We can help to turn that around for you. We understand the commercial focus, from making litigation affordable to using it to draw a line in the sand. We work from the earliest advice and design of strategy to make litigation achieve your objectives: avoid disputes altogether, find quick solutions, mediate or arbitrate, or fight your corner and make your mark, we can help.
The strength you need
Our team draws on experience from the core of intellectual property. Alasdair Poore with a team of 15 lawyers, is a lawyer and patent attorney. We understand how IP works from the bottom up (how to underpin or undermine it). We work in the patent and trade mark offices, the lower and the higher courts. We can bring you experience of handling multinational litigation over years to resolving disputes in a month; from mediating in the US, to enforcing purely local trade marks. We work with SMEs to multinationals with one key goal: making IP work for you.
Lawyers you can trust
We have experts rated in Chambers and Legal 500: “Supremely experienced IP specialist Isabel Napper … Clients praise IT lawyer and Chartered Patent Attorney Alasdair Poore as an 'exceptional communicator with great expertise and experience', and Richard Plaistowe as 'resourceful, thorough, and combative where necessary'. The firm’s ‘enthusiasm for the often neglected area of data protection‘ is greatly appreciated.”
Our clients say of the team: “knows what she is doing and does it well”, “an effective technical IP lawyer”; “a remarkable collection of ‘big hitters’”, “it’s the first time we have felt [our] solicitors are part of our business”.