Intellectual Property

Tailored, strategic and commercial IP advice

At Lee & Thompson we help clients from across the creative industries and beyond safeguard, commercialise and enforce their intellectual property, ensuring their ideas, content and brands achieve their full potential.

Our team advises on all aspects of intellectual property from protection and registration to commercialisation and enforcement. Whether it is managing your IP portfolio, handling complex IP transactions or dealing with infringement claims, our highly skilled lawyers combine deep industry knowledge with tailored strategic commercial advice ensuring that you achieve the best possible outcome.

Our specialist Brand Protection team provides a one-stop shop for the protection and exploitation of your brand, whether that be a single house trade mark or a global portfolio.

Our IP commercial and advisory team provides strategic advice on every aspect of rights protection and exploitation including:

• Copyright and performers’ rights
• Moral rights
• Registered and unregistered trade marks
• Design rights
• Database rights
• Trade secrets and confidential information
• Domain names

We also provide patent services, including drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications at the UK and European Patent Offices, renewing registrations, filing and defending patent oppositions and advising on revocations and infringement issues, as well as support services such as patent searching, watching and translations.

Our IP Disputes team is focussed on achieving cost-effective and commercial resolutions to your issues and strategic priorities. We often draw on our expertise in other legal disciplines where (as is often the case) a dispute is not solely about IP, and always against the background of our deep industry knowledge.

Where litigation cannot be avoided or is strategically sensible, we have considerable experience in the High Court and Court of Appeal, in the specialist Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) and at the UK IPO. We are comfortable dealing with emergency injunction applications and will do whatever it takes to protect your rights or defend claims being against you. We are based in London but frequently partner with overseas counsel to manage cross-border disputes around the globe. As an independent London law firm we are not constrained by global networks and are free to choose the right lawyers for the right job and are nimble and cost-effective.

Our IP advisory services are there to help you avoid disputes or mitigate risks through IP clearance and advice on a wide variety of issues including new product and service launches, and content and campaign clearance.