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Expert intellectual property legal advice to support every stage of your businesses, from protecting your ideas to resolving disputes.

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Acuity Law’s specialist intellectual property team advises businesses across the full range of Intellectual Property rights, helping you protect what you have built, make the most of what you own, and acting decisively on your behalf when your rights are infringed.

Whether you’re a start-up, looking to protect your brand assets for the first time, an established business managing an international IP portfolio, or a rights holder facing copyright infringement, our expert Intellectual Property specialist lawyers will work closely with you in partnership and provide clear, commercially focused advice.

We provide specialist advice across the full Intellectual Property range of services including protecting, managing, exploiting and enforcing your intellectual property rights.  We support clients to build their valuable portfolios of rights globally, defend and enforce those rights in actions before the UK and EU intellectual property offices and the UK courts in addition to advising on the strategic commercialisation of rights.

Our Intellectual Property lawyers work with clients across a wide range of sectors and sizes, from high-growth businesses and creative industries to multi-nationals and listed corporates.

Intellectual property is a term used to describe the legal rights that protect assets or ideas created by businesses or individuals. Our intellectual property services are:

  • Copyright: which protects creative works such as writing, music, art and software
  • Trade marks: which protect brand identities such as names, logos and shapes
  • Brand management: which helps businesses build, protect and maximise brand value
  • Design rights: which helps businesses build, protect and maximise brand value
  • IP Development: which makes the most of your IP commercially

What does our intellectual property legal team cover?

Our specialist IP lawyers provide a full-service offering, including IP registration, commercialisation and defending or enforcing rights against third parties, both in the UK and internationally. These services include:

We help you to protect your valuable brand identity. We advise you on how to protect it both in the UK and globally, enforce it against copycats and monetise it through licensing and commercialisation.

Work highlights

Renewable energy company – EU trade mark oppositions
Successfully defending a series of simultaneous EU trademark oppositions over five years on behalf of a large renewable energy company, against an EU-based competitor, which reached the Fifth Board of Appeal.
Furniture design – copyright and design right defence
Successfully defending copyright and unregistered design right infringement claims made by an iconic British interior design company in relation to various pieces of furniture manufactured, designed and sold by our renowned client.
Design right – interior design and fashion retail
Successfully defending UK and EU-registered and unregistered design right claims made against an iconic interior designer and, similarly, in relation to a multinational US fashion retailer trading in the UK.
International brand strategy
Devising international brand protection strategies for a number of large, multi-national clients.
UKIPO – trade mark registration hearings
Overturning decisions at hearings by the UKIPO on registration of trademarks.
IP advice for Trinity Brands
Advising Trinity Brands, the owner of high-end fashion labels, on all business operations matters, including protecting the IP owned by the brands in the group and various IP licensing arrangements.
SNC Mission Systems UK Limited
Advising SNC Mission Systems UK Limited in relation to protecting and exploiting its IP assets internationally.
Numeris Footwear Limited
Advising Numeris Footwear Limited on all aspects of its IP.
EUTM opposition proceedings
Succeeding in EUTM opposition proceedings against Moeve (formerly CESPA), the international energy conglomerate.

Speak to one of our expert Intellectual Property lawyers.

Whether you need to protect a brand, commercialise your Intellectual Property or resolve a dispute, our Intellectual Property Law Team is ready to help. Get in touch with us for an initial conversation.

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What our clients say

The team are highly responsive, friendly and have strong knowledge of the industry

The team is very knowledgeable and responsive. They understand our business and provide proactive and solutions-driven advice.

Straightforward to work with, sensible advice to get things done with minimum fuss.

Available to call upon when we need to provide expert advice. Easy to work with and reliable in keeping us updated as registrations progress over a prolonged period.

Awards & Credentials

The Intellectual Property Team is ranked Tier 2 in the Legal 500

Legal 500

Cordelia is listed as Recommended in the Legal 500 for their work in Intellectual Property

Chambers and Partners

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Our commercial and technology lawyers are approachable, commercially minded and genuinely invested in the outcomes they achieve for clients. Get in touch directly, we are always happy to talk through what you need.

Cordelia Payne

Consultant Partner
Intellectual Property Team London
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Aisha Wardell

Senior Partner
Commercial Litigation Team Dispute Resolution & Litigation Cardiff
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Intellectual property is a valuable business asset that often overlaps with broader commercial and corporate considerations. Apart from advising on a wide range of IP issues, we also offer a full range of legal services designed to support and protect your business at every stage including:

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Start-ups

Specialist corporate legal advice for early-stage businesses navigating their first investment rounds and corporate structures.

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Corporate

From Series A funding and management buyouts to major acquisitions and full exits, we act on transactions at every stage of the business lifecycle

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Employment & HR

A full range of employment and HR legal advice including TUPE advice, tribunal defence, HR documentation, management incentive arrangements and employment considerations on deals.

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Need a law firm on a retainer with preferable rates?

Our Acuity Counsel Service provides you with your own dedicated team, with the ability to manage budget and control costs.

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Whether you need to protect a brand, commercialise your Intellectual Property or resolve a dispute, our Intellectual Property Law Team is ready to help. Get in touch with us for an initial conversation.