Intellectual Property

FULL SUITE OF SERVICES AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Our lawyers are equally at home handling contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property law, with a keen focus on the IT, entertainment, sports, gaming and media industries. As the firm of choice for transactions and disputes across sectors including the construction, fashion, gaming, health and wellness, infocommunications, semiconductor and software industries, we can assist you in the following areas of work.

Dispute Resolution

Our team regularly works with private investigators and computer forensic experts to obtain evidence of infringement, and with damages analysts. We are fluent in negotiating royalty payments with licensing societies, and can assist you in acquiring pre-action discovery orders, and pre-emptive remedies such as Anton Piller orders, criminal search warrants and injunctions.

Our IP disputes and enforcement lawyers are proficient in the below categories of work:

• Civil litigation for trade mark, copyright, design and patent infringement and invalidation, and for passing off and unfair competition

• Misuse of trade secrets, corporate espionage, and employer-employee restraint of trade litigation

• Licensing disputes

• Commercial disputes involving IP issues

• Criminal prosecutions for trade mark and copyright offences

• WIPO domain name disputes

Corporate

Our corporate intellectual property lawyers will support you with consultancy services and advise on your transactional deals. Some of the corporate work which our intellectual property lawyers undertake include:

• IP licensing and assignments

• Transfer of IP rights

• IP audits and corporate due diligence exercises

• Distributorship, franchising, and agency agreements

• Commercial and employment agreements with provisions for use and ownership of IP

• Advisory for product advertising, food labelling, and other product regulatory requirements

• Media related agreements, such as co-production, television rights, broadcasting, publishing, product endorsement, sponsorship, and event hosting agreements

• Software licensing, software supply, hardware supply, services supply, and system integration, implementation, and maintenance agreements

• Research collaboration agreements

IP Registration and Prosecution

Our IP registration lawyers are experts in handling various portfolios of trade marks, patents, registered designs, and domain names and will skilfully advise on your concerns relating to:

• Eligibility of trade marks, inventions and designs for registration

• Advising on prospects of obtaining registration of IP

• IP searches

• Watch services

• Filing and prosecuting domestic and international IP applications 

• Registration of gTLD and ccTLD domain names, including multilingual domain names, on a global basis

• Searches

• Assignment and licensing of IP rights

Other Areas of Expertise

We represent clients who are involved in complex international arbitration proceedings relating to IP and IT disputes, particularly those arising from large scale software and IT services projects, IP licensing agreements and distributorship agreements.