Rodyk's Intellectual Property Practice provides the full range of legal services in the area of intellectual property law.

The practice provides complete legal counsel and advisory services, from the registration and management of intellectual property, to transactions and contentious actions involving such property.

We manage the intellectual property portfolio (covering trade marks, patents, designs and copyright) for numerous local and foreign entities. This includes advising on the selection and registration of trade marks and drafting patent specifications and prosecuting patent applications. We maintain tracking systems to monitor our clients' intellectual property rights.

Our strong transactional experience includes guiding our clients on branding and rebranding strategies, structuring their IP rights, and working closely with them to commercialise their rights through franchising, licensing and technology transfer arrangements.

The practice provides proactive and defensive action to protect our clients' intellectual property rights. Our team is frequently involved in multi jurisdictional litigation and arbitration, and regional enforcement and licensing programmes. Through our extensive international connections, we coordinate the global protection and enforcement of our clients' rights.

Our expertise includes:

Portfolio Management

• Advisory work
• Monitoring services
• Registration of patents, trade marks and designs
• Rights clearance

Transactional

• Competition issues
• Franchising
• Licensing
• IP due diligence
• IP audits
• Structuring intellectual property rights and ownership

Contentious

• Copyright disputes
• Complex patent litigation
• Domain name disputes
• Enforcement (anti-counterfeiting)
• Infringement actions
• Passing off actions
• Trade secrets