England - North • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Ward Hadaway LLP
Ward Hadaway LLP’s Newcastle-based intellectual property team provides contentious and non-contentious advice to tech start-ups, entrepreneurs and clients from the digital and creative sectors. The team led by Bill Goodwin, who is also a chartered trade mark attorney, has particular expertise advising spin-out companies from the university sector. A key practice area concerns trade marks where the team built a strong portfolio of blue-chip clients providing registration and portfolio management services as well as handling trademark disputes. The group, including Tim Toomey, Robert Glassford and associate Sally Hyslop closely collaborates with the firm’s IT specialists, including key figure Judy Baker. Alex Shiel retired in March 2023.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Key clients
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- ScS Sofas
- Tech Nation
- Be Modern
- Cellularevolution
- Workwear Express
- Lusso Stone
- Rheal Healthfoods
- ESP Diagnostics
- Newcastle Building Society
Work highlights
- Advising Kinewell Energy on all aspects of the protection of its IP and the development, licensing and customer contracts that it enters into to exploit that IP.
- Acting for Tech Nation Limited and carrying out a wide range of IP work, including handling trade mark registrations, sponsorship agreements, publishing agreements and contracts relating to the various products which Tech City has developed, including Digital Business Academy, the Tech Nation Report and Tech Immersion.
- Advising to Rheal Healthfoods Limited on a range of legal and IP issues, including the protection of their brand through trade mark registrations.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Bill Goodwin