Intellectual Property

How to Protect Your Company from Unlawful Springboarding

Your top employee resigns and immediately opens up a new business in direct opposition to you. Using your software, your client relationships and your business methods to springboard their new start-up and poach your clients. We discuss, in the context of a recent High Court case, how our law can help you put a stop to that sort of unfair competition. And we share some tips on how to protect yourself from it in the future.

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How to Protect Your Business’ Brand from Copycats

“You know you’re winning when you’re being copied.” (Robin Sharma, author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari) Whether your business is brand new or well established, you need to protect your trading, product and service names from being unlawfully copied. Often your names (and associated logos and other branding) are essential elements in your

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