Intellectual Property

  • Trademarks, social media and protecting your business online

    9 January 2023

    Whilst there are many pros that social media can create for a business it is not without its cons. As the internet continues to grow at a rate that the law has failed to keep up with, organisations have had to adapt to deal with a wide range of online problems. There is no ‘social media law’ you can call on to address these issues. Instead, a mix of long-established legal principles and new laws are used in a bid…
  • Intellectual property licensing and negotiating your first deal

    2 March 2022

    If you have developed a new product, or perhaps come up with an innovative way of doing something, you may find that other businesses who are keen to make use of your ideas or creations ask you to enter into an intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement.
  • Who owns the intellectual property rights to your website?

    4 March 2017

    It is easy to think that once you have purchased your domain name, written your content and hired a web developer to implement your designs, the rights to your website will belong to you. However, very often this will not be the case.