Intellectual Property
Wood Scherzinger + Epstein’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice aims to be at the forefront of IP legal services, engaged in the most complex cases for clients for whom IP issues are critical to the success of their business.
We cover the spectrum of intellectual property issues, including copyright, patents, brand protection and trade marks, false advertising, breach of confidence, database protection, commercial IP licensing, product liability and anti-counterfeiting.
Our clients include a wide range of international companies in fields as diverse as consumer electronics, content, entertainment, software, mining and financial services. Common to these retainers is the need to provide sound strategic advice, robust representation in proceedings and unswerving focus on client commercial objectives.
IP is our passion and we publish extensively in the field, deliver papers at leading IP conferences and training to the next generation of IP practitioners and law students.
Patents
Our patent team is engaged in work in a range of industries including industrial packaging, consumer electronics, the internet and mining. We also have substantial expertise in claims involving innovation patents and the strategic options facing patentees to secure their rights in the short and medium terms. This expertise includes patent portfolio review, strategic patent filing advice and patent licensing support services.
Our commercial IP expertise includes advice on the commercialisation of IP rights and draft commercial IP agreements including complex IP and technology licences and assignments. We stand out in the market for our commercially focused and practical approach and are routinely called on to advise on the IP aspects of complex corporate and commercial transactions, IP asset review, risk assessment and transaction documentation.
Brand Protection and Trademarks
We are a major force in brand protection and have acted in some of the largest brand and advertising challenges run in this country. Our track record in successfully challenging false advertising campaigns, or defending those under challenge, is amongst the best in the market. We have a capacity to bring urgent applications that few can match.
Our trade marks practice manages significant brand portfolios both locally and overseas and provides advice on all aspects of brand protection (trade marks, designs, domain names, company and business names), enforcement and brand recovery. We have a broad range of clients in the media, entertainment, telecommunications, health services, retail, software and financial services industries.
We cover the spectrum of intellectual property issues, including copyright, patents, brand protection and trade marks, false advertising, breach of confidence, database protection, commercial IP licensing, product liability and anti-counterfeiting.
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