Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Rights Protection & IP Law

The protection of your intellectual property rights is important. Therefore having access to an IP specialist lawyer who understands your business and the law is paramount. Here at Forward Law, we have our resident IP expert solicitor, Stephen Avila, on hand to help you. He has advised many businesses such as yours, and has a Masters in Intellectual Property Law.

Stephen has spent many years advising businesses of all sizes in the fintech, proptech, e-commerce sectors, including start-ups, on how to protect their IP rights. As a result, Stephen can help you to protect your interests, plan ahead and get the right registrations, contracts and structures in place. He can also advise on taking action to defend your IP rights. Stephen is both helpful and knowledgeable – just what you need in this specialist area.

Where needed, we work hand-in-hand with other experts, such as patent and trademark attorneys, to help you register your IP rights.

Intellectual Property Services

Our intellectual property services include advising on:

  • Action for passing off; brand reputation protection
  • Confidential information protection; non-disclosure agreements
  • Confidential information or non-disclosure breaches & trade secret theft
  • Copyright – protection & infringement
  • Database rights – protection & infringement
  • Design rights – protection & infringement
  • Domain names and cyber-squatting
  • IP aspects of corporate transactions
  • Licensing IP of all kinds
  • Software licensing
  • Trademark registration
  • Trademark infringement
  • Transfers or sales of IP rights & their registrations

Cost-Effective IP Protection

We are always mindful of the need to provide cost-effective IP advice. However, protecting your intellectual property can get expensive quickly if you are registering a lot of patents around the world. Thankfully, most IP protections are fairly reasonable in price.

IP Rights for Start-ups

From the outset, start-ups need to consider the protection of the IP rights that they are going to create, so they don’t have bigger problems later on. Give us a call and we will be able to set you on the right road, so you can avoid any IP nightmares.

Client Love

The Forward Law team at Goody Burrett have supported my business and myself for over five years. From international joint ventures to support on personal matters I always have confidence in the fact that they have my back.
Mike Watson - Tube Tech International Testimonial
I have never worked with such a responsive law firm. David, Stephen and Bryan have helped us through a number of legal issues. We are always delighted with their response times and work ethic. As an accountancy firm they are also our go to recommended advisors for start ups and fast growth companies that we work with.
Pierre Leong Testimonial

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