TRADE MARKS & PASSING OFF
Chris provides expert advice, drafting, and representation in relation to any brand or trade mark-related issue.
Chris also provides a full range of commercial services relating to brands and trade marks, including advising, drafting of contracts, letters and forms and negotiation to help you protect and exploit your trade marks in the UK, Europe and worldwide.
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COPYRIGHT & RELATED RIGHTS
Chris provides expert advice, drafting and representation in the areas of copyright and related rights, including those underlying a business or creative endeavour, database rights and the bundles of rights inherent in music, TV and film.
Chris’s commercial services range from advising on the management and exploitation of copyright and related rights to negotiating on specific deals and drafting industry contracts to help you monetize your intangible assets.
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DESIGN RIGHT & REGISTERED DESIGNS
Chris’s practice covers all issues relating to unregistered design right, UK Registered Designs and Registered Community Designs, including advice, drafting and representation in all relevant courts and tribunals.
He provides commercial services in the form of advice, negotiation and drafting of contracts relating to dealings in registered or unregistered designs.
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CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, PRIVACY & DATA PROTECTION
The rights and duties involved in this area are diverse but they all have one thing in common: the sensitivity of the subject matter. Chris has experience handling these kinds of cases.
As well as providing dispute resolution services in this area, Chris provides non-contentious services such as drafting non-disclosure agreements and commercial contracts and advising on the protection of trade secrets or other valuable information in the context of commercial deals.
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PATENTS & INVENTIONS
Chris offers advice, drafting and representation in relation to all aspects of dispute resolution involving inventions, including patent proceedings in all relevant courts and tribunals.
On the non-contentious side, Chris is happy to advise at the very early stages of an invention, including, where appropriate, directing clients towards specialist patent attorneys for drafting technical patents or specialist search companies for prior art searches.
He provides advice on commercial deals as well as drafting of NDAs and contracts relating to all stages of an invention’s creation, development, production and exploitation.
Chris has a science background, experience in electronics and a degree in mathematics, all of which have contributed to his aptitude for technical or technological subjects, including computers and software.
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REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
Chris provides dispute resolution services in the fields of libel and slander and otherwise where freedom of expression and privacy are opposing forces or a client’s reputation is at stake.
He is also available to provide pre-publication advice or risk assessment where necessary or desirable.
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