TECHNOLOGY & IP
Brownlee LLP helps clients effectively handle a wide range of technology and intellectual property matters, which have become increasingly important to our clients.
The clients that we serve from our Technology and IP practice group are:
- owners of intellectual property;
- creators of intellectual property; and
- authorized users of intellectual property.
Our advice and services include:
- trade-marks applications for registration
- performing searches on registered rights
- providing opinions on registration
- providing opinions on potential liability for infringement of IP interests
- providing opinions and support for foreign registration and rights protection
- conducting trade-marks oppositions, including appeals and expungement actions
- conduct litigation on matters including IP ownership, protection of trade secrets
- wrongful use of confidential information
- negotiating and drafting agreements for:
- confidentiality
- non-disclosure
- licensing
- information technology sourcing
- software development
- software distribution
- employment and independent contractor agreements for IP development
- purchase and sale of intellectual property rights alone or as part of the purchase and sale a business