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Transactional intellectual property

Clear, pragmatic advice on the creation, development, protection, management and exploitation of intellectual property.

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Intellectual property (IP), including brand, has long been a crucial business asset.

As the UK advances its knowledge economy, the importance of IP to your business continues to grow. We offer legal solutions designed to protect, manage and exploit your IP assets effectively.

Understanding how to safeguard and leverage your IP is vital for maintaining a competitive edge. Our team of transactional IP lawyers has extensive experience in advising on the creation, development, protection and exploitation of IP, ensuring that our guidance is aligned with your business needs.

Our transactional intellectual property (IP) services encompass the following for clients in the UK and internationally.

Services

Innovation, including R&D

Advising on research and development arrangements, including collaboration arrangements with industry and/or with academic partners.

IP strategy and management

Strategies to protect, manage, and leverage your IP assets effectively, including IP audits and due diligence.

Structuring IP ownership

Expertise in intra-group IP structures and holding IP within joint ventures.

IP rights assignment

Ensuring IP rights are correctly assigned to the appropriate parties.

Exploiting IP rights

Advising on the exploitation of jointly developed IP by multiple parties.

Licensing IP to third parties

Royalty arrangements, revenue sharing and other structures.

Technology transfer

Advising on technology transfer arrangements, including competition law requirements.

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Examples of our work

UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

Advising UKAEA on IP aspects of the UK’s flagship fusion programme STEP, a project to deliver a prototype fusion powerplant by 2040.

Ultra Electronics Limited

Advising this global defence supplier on IP aspects of its reorganisation.

Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust

Advising on a material collaborative joint venture with academic partner King’s College London.

Waitrose

Advising on their brand collaborations with Welcome Break and Dobbies.

UK Hydrographic Office

Advising this trading fund of the Ministry of Defence, and world-leading supplier of geospatial data, on its global licensing for use with shipping around the world.

Yeo Valley

Structuring intra-group IP arrangements, optimising the protection and management of their well-known organic yoghurt and dairy brand.

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What others say

“They creatively navigate complex IP matters in the UK, and matters that have worldwide implications. Their promptness and thoroughness can always be counted on for time-sensitive matters.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Burges Salmon give practical recommendations and take the time to understand the commercial reality.”

Chambers UK 2024

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