Asset and portfolio management is key to effective maintenance and enforcement strategies within businesses. Our team of lawyers understand the process of selection, prioritisation and control of projects - and provide clients with deliverable, strategic objectives. The portfolio management team at Womble Bond Dickinson helps businesses to acquire and manage their intellectual property assets, whilst identifying opportunities that will maximise value and ensure long-term protection.
Experienced in all areas of asset management law, our team of transatlantic lawyers work closely with clients to ensure their business is sufficiently protected and prepared on both a national and international scale.
With a background of in-depth knowledge and expertise, we work closely with clients to efficiently and responsively manage intellectual property portfolios at all stages. Our lawyers are committed to building long-standing relationships with clients to fully understand their business’ goals - enabling us to add value to every step of the portfolio management process.
Our portfolio management clients
With a reputation as one of the leading portfolio management teams in the UK for trade marks, designs and domain names, our team of lawyers are dedicated to providing the best service to all clients from fund sponsors to investors and investment advisers. Our experience includes working with the following:
R.H. Smith & Sons (Wigmakers) Ltd t/a Smiffys in relation to its global trademark and registered design portfolio
Managing the international trade mark portfolio for Immediate Media, the publishing arm of the BBC
Advising Atom Bank on building and managing its trade mark portfolio.
Our asset and portfolio management services
Our lawyers provide practical, commercial and cost-effective support, with a full understanding of our clients’ portfolios, commercial drivers and ambitions. The team offer a variety of services including:
Providing adequate legal resources to help clients achieve desired outcomes and hit major milestones
Helping clients to identify significant commercial and economic issues and put in place preventative measures
Devise effective strategies to help improve planning and predict future demands
Advising clients on emerging trends and helping to craft innovative solutions to ensure the ongoing protection of IP assets
Helping clients to understand everchanging complex regulations and ensuring compliance throughout projects
Offering advice in all areas of investment and M&A transactions
Representing clients in all matters of litigation and dispute resolution.
If you’re interested in receiving unrivalled legal support in all areas of asset and portfolio management, get in touch with our team of lawyers to find out more on how we can help you today.
Effective IP portfolio management is key to ensuring you have the right protection, for the right products and services, in the territories you need. Ensuring your portfolio is up-to-date and protecting your key assets is often business-critical as it is the cornerstone of exploitation, licensing and enforcement.
Businesses don’t just operate in their own backyards anymore. You need to know, when you are ready for international expansion, that you have the right IP protection in place. Registering IP in one territory does not give protection worldwide, and this can present difficulties if you haven't got your portfolio in order.
With the right counsel at your side, you can tap into their insights on obtaining international protection, ensuring that your brands and products are protected, and you are clear to operate in new countries of interest.
Effective portfolio management can also maximise your businesses value, allowing you to concentrate on key assets, and making sure your assets remain fit-for-purpose.
Your team
Your portfolio management team
Our team is adept at managing substantial international IP portfolios. With specialists including IP managers and paralegals, working alongside our lawyers and attorneys, we keep your portfolio up-to-date, relevant and commercially sound.
Our services include filing and prosecution of applications for registration, dealing with objections and oppositions, post-registration filings including recording assignments and licences, as well as updates to the register on owner details. We can provide consolidated reports on territorial coverage, as well as breakdowns by brand or product/service line. Our portfolio management also covers monitoring – keeping an eye on new applications and registrations which may come close to your rights, and advising on strategy for protecting your interests.
In need of a portfolio management lawyer? Look no further.
At Womble Bond Dickinson we have an exceptional team of talented lawyers and business professionals who can offer guidance and find the solutions right for your business. We have both broad and niche expertise across all our UK and US offices.
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