Intellectual Property and Technology

Our Intellectual Property and Technology team is amongst the market leaders in Northern Ireland. It has an impressive list of clients across a wide range of sectors, including ICT, bio-technology, life and health sciences and education.

The team advises on all aspects of intellectual property from the creation, commercial exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR), to intellectual property aspects of larger corporate transactions, such as acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. The Team has been particularly active in recent times in Northern Ireland's growing bio-technology life and health science sector.

Our expertise and experience covers areas such as:

• collaborations in research and development;
• funding of start-up and development;
• establishing, registering and maintaining IPR;
• stand-alone IPR transactions - structuring, negotiating and documenting licences, assignments and technology transfers;
• transaction support - advising on IP aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and financing;
• related areas - such as regulatory compliance, competition, etc.

The team also advises clients in many sectors in both the public and private sectors on technology aspects of their business. We have advised many leading clients in Northern Ireland on a range of issues including:

• technology supply procurements;
• acquisitions and disposals of technology related businesses;
• technology licensing and assignment;
• linking and support agreements;
• outsourcing agreements;
• finance raising for technology companies
• data protection advice.