United Kingdom - Wales • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)

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Intellectual property

Blake Morgan LLP

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The 'exceptionally knowledgeable' team at Blake Morgan LLP provides 'first-class' advice to public and private sector clients, including those within the media and retail space, across a broad swathe of non-contentious and contentious IP matters. Team head Lee Fisher has deep knowledge across both "hard" and "soft" IP, leveraging his broader commercial litigation skills to good effect for clients bringing or defending claims, including in injunctive proceedings. Joanna Corbett-Simmons also continues to develop a strong reputation in relation to IP litigation, including on disputes relating to the breach of confidentiality and misuse of confidential information.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team are exceptionally knowledgeable and provide first-class advice.'

  • 'They were efficient, to the point, but empathetic and very keen that we not only understood the options, but that everyone in our team understood why they were giving the advice they were.'
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Key clients

  • Clarins (UK) Limited
  • University of South Wales Trinity Saint Davids
  • Personnel Hygiene Services Limited
  • Dot on Technologies Limited
  • Aquaspira Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised Clarins (UK) Limited in relation to grey market imports following the UK's exit from the European Union including acting on injunctive proceedings against a retailer selling goods outside of the selective distribution network.
  • Provided a government backed IP Audit service to an SME to fully review the existing and potential IP of the business and advise as to the existing commercial licensing terms.
  • Advised eight former employees of Identity Experts Limited in defending injunctive proceedings alleging breach of contract, fiduciary duties and restrictive covenants, misuse of confidential information and unlawful means conspiracy arising out of a team move.

Lawyers

Rising stars

Joanna Corbett-Simmons

Blake Morgan LLP

Joanna is a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team in Cardiff specialising in corporate and shareholder disputes, professional negligence and contentious intellectual property matters. Joanna has a broad range of experience in general commercial and civil claims and specialist knowledge of post-completion disputes (principally claims for breach of warranty, restrictive covenants and expert determinations of deferred consideration payments), shareholder disputes, professional negligence (principally against legal or financial advisors) and contentious intellectual property matters (including trademark and design right infringement).

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lee Fisher

Other key lawyers

Sarah Whittle, Joanna Corbett-Simmons

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