INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
At Nextlegal, we handle the entire spectrum of intellectual property law. This includes everything in patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
LITIGATION
Our experienced trial lawyers represent parties in all phases of intellectual property disputes, including trials, arbitration, mediation and appeals.
CONSULTATION
We work with our clients to build, manage and maintain their intellectual property portfolios. We will help you to enforce, and extract value from your rights in these portfolios without the need for litigation. We also counsel clients on how to avoid intellectual property disputes and how to respond to and resolve intellectual property rights violations.
TRANSACTIONS
We assist clients with matters related to the acquisition, conception, creation, development, implementation, integration, use, licensing, financing, marketing, and sale of technology and intellectual property. We work on intellectual property matters that arise as part of complex mergers & acquisitions, financing, outsourcing transactions and technology licensing
BRANDING
NextLegal helps you in sorting out issues surrounding new product development, innovation plans for existing product portfolios or brand extensions, all of which require careful planning.
PATENTS
We have a focused and integrated approach to help businesses enforce their rights against third parties, finding commercial solutions where appropriate, but litigating where necessary. We also help clients deal with third party patent assertions, analyzing whether claims have any merit, preparing defenses and counter-assertions and other commercial levers to prompt constructive settlements of disputes.
We advise clients who are preparing to invest in new businesses, products or technologies, based on the IP involved and on international IP exploitation.
MEDIA
Nextlegal represent clients to protect their copy right and other IP rights in in the media sector including publishers.
TECHNOLOGY
We work with technology companies advising on many of the most complex and high-profile IT projects on how to protect their IP interest. We advise on some of the most complex and international IP/IT issues in a wide range of transactional matters, including M&A, IPOs, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. We also regularly work on financial transactions where IP is the key underlying asset.
PHARMACEUTICALS BIOTECHNOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE
We advise on the full range of legal issues associated with drug discovery, development and protection, including ownership, protection and enforcement of relevant IP rights and R&D agreements.