Cowell Clarke’s Intellectual Property / Information Technology team has a broad range of experience in assisting innovators in bringing their innovations to commercial reality and advising organisations about the protection of their intellectual capital.

Our experience includes:

• advising start-ups, early stage businesses and mature stage innovators on the most suitable forms of corporate and business structuring
• advising on the protection of intellectual capital including confidential information, trade secrets and misuse by (former) employees and others of that intellectual capital
• IP and IT commercialisation
• Trade mark registration & protection
• Computer and high technology licensing and other contracts
• Software development agreements
• Advising in relation to infringement, section 52 and passing off matters
• E-commerce and IT issues involving formation of contract questions, jurisdiction issues, breaches of IP rights, etc.
• Registration of domain names
• Disputes and cyber squatting
• Patents