England - South East • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is thoroughly experienced in transactional IP matters, including collaboration agreements, copyright licenses, patents, R&D agreements, as well as trademarks. Christopher Shelley in Oxford heads up the firm’s life sciences sector practice and is the national joint head of team alongside the London-based Anna Frankum. Joanne Vengadesan in Reading co-leads the IP & technology department, with Daniel Berry, who is also based in Reading, helming the IP litigation offering.
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- ‘Their services were professional and efficient. I could rely on their services.’
- ‘Excellent legal knowledge, very commercially aware, and a good understanding of the issues.’
- ‘Expertise in depth and easy to deal with at all levels of customer knowledge.’
- ‘Penningtons Manches Cooper's team is very responsive and experienced. The firm has a holistic approach and can provide a good perspective on the dispute as well as recommended actions.’
- ‘Daniel Berry is very responsive and a good negotiator, we trust his knowledge.’
- ‘Chris Shelley is extremely reliable.’
- ‘Chris Shelley is consistently excellent with his advice and always brings a commercial perspective.’
- ‘Joanne Vengadesan is my main contact and is exceptional in the support she gives our business and to me in my position as CFO. Joanne is intuitive, responsive, practical as well as being easy to deal with, positive in approach and totally professional’.
Key clients
- Lumenisity
- Andreas Stihl Limited
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
- IS Research Limited, trading as Megabuyte
- Organix Brands Limited
- Data analytics provider in education sector
- Rezatec Limited
- Roka London Limited
- OneAston UK Limited
- Skyloop Digital Limited
- King’s College London
- Oxford University Press
- Pirbright Institute
- CAB International
- bioMérieux SA
- Veryan Medical Limited
- Astro Lighting Holdings Limited
- Celleron Therapeutics Limited
- Grey Wolf Therapeutics Limited
- Ethypharm Holdings SA
- Norbar Torque Tools Limited
- Oxford Gene Technology Group
- Oxford VacMedix Limited
- Oxular Limited
- Oxford Endovascular Limited
- BreatheOx Limited t/a Albus Health
- Orthoson Limited
- Orthox Limited
- MitoRX Therapeutics Limited
- First Light Fusion Limited
- Myricx Pharma Limited
- Pathios Therapeutics Limited
- Oxford Flow Limited
- Opsydia Limited
- OxVax Limited
- Charterhouse Turf Machinery Limited
- First Law P.C. (Bighit Entertainment Co Ltd)
- Compass Box Delicious Whisky Limited
- Zihipp Limited
- ProtonDX Limited
- Cogitat Limited
- Solena Materials Limited
- About: Energy Limited
- Thirtyfive Bio Limited
- Emma Raducanu
- Quadram Institute Bioscience
- Sanderson Design Group (previously Walker Greenbank)
- 4D Medicine Limited
- Owen Mumford Limited
- National Oceanography Centre
- Evox Therapeutics Limited
- Mint Neurotechnologies Ltd
- SPARTA Biodiscovery Limited
- Orfonyx Limited
- Seloxium Limited
- ISOgenix Limited
- Credo Therapies Limited
- Ground Truth Labs Limited
- Bioataraxis Limited
- aVaxziPen Limited
Work highlights
- Supported Lumenisity and its shareholders through bids from multiple global technology giants and thereafter on its acquisition by Microsoft, which completed in December 2022.
- Instructed by the National Oceanography Centre in respect of a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters.
- Managed the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK, EU and International trade mark portfolio.
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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
Daniel advises on all aspects of intellectual property protection and enforcement in the UK and EU including trade marks, passing off, domain names, anti-counterfeiting, design rights, copyright, patents and confidential information. He works for clients across a variety of business sectors with particular expertise in the fashion, travel, food and drink, entertainment, agriculture, automotive and sports industries. His significant track record in all aspects of trade mark and design filing includes the prosecution and enforcement of rights before the UKIPO and EUIPO registries. He frequently advises on the registrability of brands, national and international portfolio management and the commercial exploitation of these rights. Daniel also specialises in IP litigation and has considerable experience before the English and Welsh Court and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, as well as in UDRP proceedings before Nominet, WIPO and the Company Names Tribunal. He has a strong background in anti-counterfeiting matters, customs notices and criminal prosecutions.
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
Partner advising on brand protection and intellectual property; software and IT contracts; electronic commerce and data protection issues; commercial agreements.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Chris Shelley, Joanne Vengadesan, Daniel Berry, Anna Frankum