Intellectual Property Lawyers
When starting and growing your business, you will need to ensure you adequately protect your intellectual property (IP). This may consist of trademarks, copyright, and some confidential information. Some Mums may even have a design they want protected, or an invention that may need to be patented.
Knowing what IP you own and how best to protect it is vital to the success of your business. By doing an IP audit, you can help understand the extent of your IP, and then work out strategies to protect it. This may include trademark registrations, intellectual property clauses in your agreements, confidentiality agreements and more.
How does it work?
Please fill out our Let’s Get Started Form. We will then get back to you within 1 business day. We will send you a fixed cost quote for your own personalised legal package which includes customised documents. Your documents are usually ready within 3-4 days. So easy!
FAQs
You need to protect your confidential information
Having a business idea is awesome, but without entrusting others with that idea, it will never grow. But as much as we want to trust others with our ideas, they sometimes don’t value the confidentiality as much as we do, or value the worth of that idea.
Regan* was worried when she came to us that if her secret recipes were out in public, they would be easily copied. We helped Regan protect the secrecy of her innovative food recipes by drafting a confidentiality agreement for her. She was then able to confidently reveal the information to potential business partners and suppliers so that she could discuss its potential with them. They could then only put the information she revealed to them towards the purpose of furthering her business interests (not anyone elses!). This then lead to some solid business relationships and the launch of her successful food business.
Other clients of ours have asked for help in protecting formulas, marketing strategy, business operations and research and development.
We can help you by drafting a confidentiality agreement or NDA – non-disclosure agreement, and offer a great package here.
You need to be clear on copyright
We helped Amanda* by ensuring she had adequate copyright protection in her blog and website content. We drafted website terms and conditions helping protect her rights in her website content, including all content, graphics, logos, photos and videos. We also made sure that copywriters properly assigned their rights to her so that she could edit and republish the work, and sell it via her online store. We also made sure she didn’t have to attribute the work to the copywriters. Amanda also had a photographer and videographer who were taking pictures and videos of her products. We made sure that the agreement with these people was sound, and that she could use the pictures and videos extensively in the ways that she wanted to.
We can help you by drafting agreements which help protect your copyright and other intellectual property rights.
You need to protect your brand
Our client, Olivia* didn’t realise that registering her business name did not give her any proprietary rights. When she came to us, she had a business name and domain name but no trademark. Unfortunately there was a copycat in the market who had recently set up with a very similar name. Luckily we were able to help Olivia gain a trademark for her brand so she could have exclusive use rights to the name. We also trademarked some of her product names for added protection. She had tried to do so herself, but her trademark was not in compliance with the Trademarks Act, and she had issues with the Trademarks Examiner. We were able to help her comply with the Act and complete the registration. We were also able to help her with sufficient coverage in the market as she was unsure of the classes and descriptors that she needed to be using.
We can help you by providing advice on trademarks, and attending to registration.
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