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IP Commercialisation, licensing and dispute Resolution made easy
From copyright and trademark protection through to complex licensing arrangements and dispute resolution, we can help you adopt practical strategies that maximise the commercial benefit of IP rights. Why use a traditional legal practice when you can get help from multidisciplinary professionals that live and breathe modern technology.
Practical IP for future industries
Understand your rights, shape your future
We can help you document ownership clearly from the start, reduce friction with collaborators and investors, and choose the right licensing model for your enterprise. With IP sorted from the beginning, you can move faster, avoid disputes and make funding or partnership discussions easier with fewer roadblocks.
Support for Any licensing model
Whether you’re offering software-as-a-service, granting distribution rights, sublicensing IP to channel partners, or commercialising research outputs, we can help you implement licensing structures that support your growth. Trust an experienced hand with real commercial experience to understand the risks and benefits of each approach and help you devise practical strategies that work for industries of the future.
IP Commercialisation
Learn how our team of multidisciplinary technologists and lawyers can help you build strong IP foundations and help you easily commercialise your ideas.
We can assist you to get foundational copyright, trade mark and licensing arrangements in place early, so you can move quickly when it matters most
Build strong IP foundations
When IP rights are fragmented or unclear, it can slow down every aspect of commercialisation. We assist you to get foundational copyright, trade mark and licensing arrangements in place early—so you can move quickly when it matters most. Here are just some of the ways we’re helping future industries commercialise their IP.
Subscription Agreements
The subscription model has become one of the most flexible and effective ways to commercialise IP—particularly for digital products, software platforms, data services, and ongoing content delivery. We assist clients to structure subscription agreements that reflect how their IP is accessed and used over time, balancing recurring revenue with enforceable licence boundaries.
These agreements can include tiered access, user-based limits, usage-based pricing, and embedded compliance mechanisms that link your commercial terms with any technical limitations or controls you might have available. We also help with terms governing renewal, suspension, IP ownership, and content updates—ensuring that your business retains control while offering customers predictable value. Where relevant, we coordinate with your product and engineering teams to ensure licence boundaries are meaningful in practice, not just on paper.
Software copyright protection and licensing
Source code and digital works are often protected by copyright automatically upon creation, but practical enforcement—and effective commercialisation requires clear attribution and great quality evidence. We assist with documenting authorship, capturing rights at the point of creation, and structuring licence terms that suit how your product is used in practice.
Employee and contractor IP assignment agreements
Without the right terms in place, you can run into problems commercialising IP created by staff, contractors or founders. We assist with crafting agreements that make clear rights assignments. These documents not only clarify ownership, but also make future fundraising, exits or licensing negotiations significantly simpler.
Open source compliance and risk management
Leveraging open source and free software can accelerate development and lower costs, but it also introduces obligations that many teams don’t fully understand. We help clients choose appropriate licences when contributing to or building on open projects, and provide practical guidance for managing obligations at scale—including re-use limitations, copyleft obligations, and attribution requirements. We can also work with your developers to integrate open source checks into your build process, reducing future compliance issues.
Licensing agreement structures that maximise revenue potential
Licensing is more than just legal text—it’s part of your business architecture. We help you build licensing strategies that align with how you scale: subscriptions, usage-based models, partner sublicensing and more. If you need support to technically enforce those limits, our tech practice can help.
Trade mark protection strategies for digital businesses
Brand identity in the digital age is more than a logo. We can assist with trade mark registration and protections for product names, app names and taglines. If you’re concerned about competing brands or contested registrations, we can help clarify what the process is to navigate these risks so you’re free to focus on growing your brand in the marketplace, rather than protecting it.
IP Dispute Resolution
Get help enforcing your rights or defending an infringement claim from lawyers that live and breathe the latest in tech.
We help clients assess the nature of infringement, weigh commercial and reputational risks, and effectively and efficiently respond to, or prosecute, claims
Respond quickly to actual infringement and claims of infringement
We help clients assess the nature of infringement, weigh commercial and reputational risks, and use the right mix of informal and legal tools to respond to claims of infringement, or actual infringement of third parties. Often the best outcome comes from acting early, with a clear view of your rights and options. Here are some of the ways we’re able to assist clients with IP disputes.
Trade mark and brand protection
Brand misuse can take many forms: a domain name that mimics yours, a social media account impersonating your business, a competitor using lookalike packaging, or an overseas operator capitalising on your goodwill. We assist you to identify whether your rights have been infringed and take swift action. We always focus on resolving the issue in a commercially proportionate way—protecting your brand while managing the cost, delay and distraction that often comes with enforcement.
Licensing disputes
We assist clients in dealing with licensing issues involving unauthorised use of IP, under-reporting of royalties, sub-licensing breaches, misuse of confidential information, and disputes over whether certain activities fall inside or outside the scope of a licence. These disputes often turn on how terms are interpreted, not just what’s written down, and we help you frame your position clearly while preserving future commercial relationships where possible.
When licences include escalation clauses, mediation steps or audit rights, we can help activate and manage those processes effectively. We also assist with navigating contractual termination where necessary, helping you preserve your legal position and contain the risks of ending a commercial relationship.
Technology misuse and unauthorised replication
Your software, datasets, digital workflows, or proprietary models can all be misused or copied in ways that aren’t always visible at first. We help you investigate suspected misuses and assess whether legal action is viable, drawing on a mix of contractual analysis, copyright law and practical discovery techniques. In some cases, unauthorised reuse might come from former employees, white-label partners, or customers acting outside their licence terms. In others, it may involve competitors building derivative works or reselling modified versions.
Because these matters often straddle legal and technical domains, we take a blended approach. We can assist with scoping digital forensic investigations, notification drafting, negotiation and enforcement—all with an eye on proportionality and the potential reputational impacts of escalation. When applicable, we also help coordinate external technical advisors or escalate to competent and technically-minded barristers.
Domain and platform abuse
The ease of setting up new domain names or digital platform accounts means it’s never been easier for bad actors to appropriate parts of your brand identity. We help clients deal with domain squatters, typo domains, impersonators on social platforms and illegitimate online stores that trade on your goodwill. These issues often require fast, technically grounded responses that use a mix of legal rights and direct platform engagement.
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