Intellectual Property
Protect, exploit and defend your intellectual property with strategic legal advice tailored to your business
We’ll help you identify the best way to protect, exploit and manage your intellectual property (IP) portfolio and shape the most profitable strategy for your business. Whatever stage you’re at – our IP solicitors help commercialise your intellectual property so that you take full advantage of your most valuable business assets.
Intellectual Property Services
Our intellectual property solicitors can support you with:
Trade Marks |
We’ll identify trade mark opportunities that will help distinguish your business. We will deal with the registration, renewal and assignment processes of your Trade Mark. We will also manage your Trade Mark portfolio making sure any opposition, trade mark disputes or infringements that arise are handled efficiently to protect your reputation and brand.
Patents |
You need the right tools to protect your assets, inventions, design, research and developments. Get legal advice from our IP solicitors who will advise you through each step of the process: application, examination, publication, opposition, and registration of your patents.
Copyright |
Get the legal knowledge required to avoid infringement and the means to protect your own copyright works. Our IP solicitors will also help you commercialise your work, using licensing or assignment of copyright to get more from your intellectual property.
Design Rights |
Your designs are in safe hands with our team of expert IP solicitors. By putting preventative measures in place, we can help stop the competition taking advantage and advise on any enforcement or opposition if required.
Utility Models |
When you need to protect an invention fast, our IP solicitors can help you explore the option of utility models to keep you ahead of the curve. With the right IP legal advice, you’ll be able to police your innovations and make sure they’re sufficiently safeguarded.
Examples of our work
Intellectual Property advice for small businesses, SMEs, start-ups, spin-outs and large companies
Every single business utilises IP in some way and our IP lawyers support a broad range of UK-based clients in innovative businesses where the effective protection and utilisation of IP is crucial. We’ve worked with clients in creative industries, e-commerce, retail and luxury brands, life sciences and healthcare, manufacturing and engineering, IT, telecommunications, and emerging technologies.
We advise clients of all shapes and sizes, from university spinouts and start-ups to SMEs and large multi-nationals. Whether you’re ready to start-up, scale up or exit, and whatever the nature of your business, we’re confident we can support you.
Why choose our intellectual property solicitors?
Our IP solicitors can assist you with every aspect of managing your IP portfolio – from strategic analysis, licensing arrangements, trade marks and registrations to enforcing your rights and supporting you through dispute resolution.
We are experienced in identifying, protecting, exploiting and policing clients’ rights under extensive intellectual property portfolios. We take the time to get to know your business and understand every aspect of your portfolio. Our understanding of the investment and the venture capital sector is also second-to-none. We make sure you get the best IP protection and management that fits with your long-term strategic objectives.
Our IP solicitors have all been recruited from top 100 UK law firms, from large international businesses or trained and qualified within Harper James. All of our IP solicitors have advised clients both as external advisors and as in-house IP/brand management counsel. As such, we understand the commercial challenges that businesses are faced with day to day and don’t get caught up in the academics. We’ll gladly work alongside your in-house counsel as an extension of your team, work with your current IP solicitors or adopt a full-service approach if you prefer.
What our clients say
We pride ourselves on delivering an excellent service for clients, but don’t just take our word for it.
The on-demand service we get from Harper James allows us to combine their expertise with that of our own in-house counsel. It means we can get quick and trustworthy legal advice from specialists in every legal area, as and when we need it. There are no hidden extras and the service we have received has always demonstrated an awareness of our fast-moving commercial requirements.
It was difficult to find suitable support for my IP problem and such a relief to find Harper James Solicitors. Lindsay was fantastic at guiding me through the process and I couldn’t have been happier with the result.
Toby and his team have done such a fantastic job providing support across fundraising, IP, employment, GDPR and option pool establishment. Harper James has helped us get solid legal advice, often at short notice relating to a number of common start-up hurdles.
What I’ve been most impressed with is the way Rob and Ed have dug deep, independently, into our website and made sure every base is covered. They’ve looked under the surface of the website and highlighted areas where we need to ensure we have correct terms and policies in place. That’s first-class support.
I was looking for intelligent, fast feedback on things I couldn’t do myself. Every step of the way, Harper James have fulfilled that promise – they’ve been so responsive. It’s run as a business, not as a law firm. Anyone who’s been near a law firm knows the difference. It’s a real pleasure.
Harper James has been the ideal law firm for Paragraf because of the flexibility that’s built into the on-demand subscription package. With HJ, I have all the legal expertise and answers I need at the end of an email. We have ambitious plans to fulfil, pushing our product lines overseas and bringing graphene electronics to the masses. There’s no better partner to help us get there than Harper James.
Prior to joining the Enterprise Scheme, I was attempting to manage all the firms’ legal issues myself and finding it a huge struggle. Being part of the Enterprise scheme allows Mama Bamboo to access legal advice at an affordable rate. Something which is always worry for a small firm when considering seeking legal support. The scheme allows us to protect our business whilst we focus on our growth plans.
