Commercial Legal Services: Intellectual Property

“The cost effective way to exploit your BIG IDEA”

Protecting your Trademarks, Copyright and other Intellectual Property (IP)

We understand that it is necessary more than ever for companies to develop a strategy to protect and exploit intellectual property.

We can provide practical advice in connection with the registration of trade marks, designs and patents.

We are able to resolve your IP disputes quickly and effectively and enforce or defend your IP rights.

We can also help you identify your IP and assist you in licensing and assigning it to maximise its commercial value.

On October 11th 2007, Lee & Priestley, in association with Yorkshire Forward, the Region’s Development Agency, took part in the Future for Growth event held in Wakefield.

The event, which was aimed at regional companies with a strong intellectual property, technology and media focus, provided a forum for Yorkshire Forward to share its recommendations on how it proposes to develop the region’s creative and digital industry and create a business environment that will stimulate continued economic growth.

The workshops, delivered by Yorkshire Forward and the UK Intellectual Property Office amongst others, were both interesting and informative and enabled individuals from across the sector to better understand, comment upon and contribute to the various target-focussed strategies currently being put in place by the development agency to ensure sustained development and economic growth for the Yorkshire region. For more information, please click here.

Connect Yorkshire provides a fast track to growth for Yorkshire's technology and science companies. It nurtures new knowledge-based companies by linking them with the resources they need to succeed: investment, markets, management, partners, and support services. As part of this process, Connect Yorkshire matches innovative young companies with investors looking for growth.

Contacts

Louise Handley (Partner)
Heather Simpson (Solicitor)
Eloise Corcoran (Solicitor)
Christine Lightfoot (Trainee Solicitor)
Ryan Gracey (Trainee Solicitor)

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Turning a Bright Idea into Reality - 02/11/05

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Registering Trade Marks - 02/11/04

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