England - East Midlands • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Shakespeare Martineau LLP has significant experience in patent actions, design, particularly in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, which makes the firm well suited to work for SMEs, as well as in IP for universities and brand related work. Transactional lawyer and head of practice, Edward Wright focuses on protection and exploitation of IP through acquisition, licensing and commercial agreements. Martin Noble left for Freeths LLP in August 2022, but the practice was boosted by the arrival of transactional and advisory IP specialist Selina Hinchliffe from Browne Jacobson LLP in 2023.
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Key clients
- Cenex
- Cambridge Weight Plan
- JDS Foods
- Moviebox Megastores (International)
- Oriental Star Agencies
- Source Bioscience
- Phenotypeca
- Replay Maintenance/Passport365
- Proodle Solutions
- University of Nottingham
- Spirit Health Group
- BPR Medical
- Heavyweight Air Express
- Purpose Media
- North South Wines
- Recresco
- Endurance Zone
Work highlights
- Advising BPR Medical on IP licence and distribution agreement with Medclair, a leading Swedish-based specialist in safe nitrous oxide use, that gives BPR Medical exclusive rights to supply Medclair’s mobile nitrous oxide conversion technology (MDU) in the UK and Ireland.
- Advising Phenotypeca on and preparing an appropriate contractual document set with heavy IP ownership/licensing consideration and provisioning, consisting principally of laboratory and non-laboratory services supply terms, cell strain licensing terms and cell strain maintenance and storage services supply terms.
- Advising University of Nottingham on Ingenuity Programme IP licence agreements to be entered with each host university and the trade mark licence and non-disclosure agreements to be entered into with each contributor university participating in/contributing participants to any Ingenuity Programme rollout being hosted by a host university.
Lawyers
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Edward Wright