Protection, advice and documentation
We assist clients to build value in their businesses by assisting them to develop strong and distinctive brands and protecting those brands and other confidential and essential business information and know how from competitors. Your brand, confidential information and know how can be one of your most valuable assets that sets you apart from your competitors.
As businesses seek market penetration and distribution, substantial assistance is required in the commercialisation of their intellectual property assets including business protection which can only be achieved by carefully drafted documents to ensure that suppliers, distributors and other stakeholders protect your valuable intellectual property rights. When the need arises, CharterLaw can also provide assistance to clients in infringement litigation or where there are confidentiality and trade restraint protection breaches.
CharterLaw can provide advice and assistance in the following aspects of intellectual property protection :
- Advice on most forms of intellectual property protection and allied rights
- Commercialisation of intellectual property assets
- Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Goodwill and know how protection
- Technology and business systems protection
- Copyright advice and litigation
- Design registration and proceedings
- Drafting and negotiating manufacturing, licensing, and distribution agreements
- Trade Restraints and competition protection advice and documents
- Reviewing advertising copy for compliance with trade practice laws, media regulations, and codes of conduct
- Structuring of intellectual property assets and ownership
- Trade mark registrations, portfolio management, oppositions, removal actions, and proceedings
- Worldwide trade mark, patent, and design searches