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Intellectual Property

Expert intellectual property advice and support. 

Specialist intellectual property lawyers

Every business, from start-ups to international giants, creates, owns, and exploits intellectual property (IP) rights. IP rights are essential to enabling a business to achieve its ambition and are hugely valuable commercial assets. When understood and protected effectively, they can provide a significant advantage over competitors.

However, many businesses fail to proactively protect and manage their IP rights with many businesses waiting until it is almost too late. If you don’t secure your intellectual property rights, this can cause significant difficulties and costs in the future. Our intellectual property lawyers ensures businesses implement a robust IP strategy to safeguard their innovations.

Our services

At Foot Anstey, we provide specialist intellectual property support in:

Our intellectual property lawyers take a global and holistic approach to anti-counterfeiting, using all available tools to tackle the problem efficiently.

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Businesses that design and manufacture products should consider obtaining registered design protection to safeguard their products and ensure competitive market positioning. Our IP solicitors can assist through this process among other design rights legal advice.

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Our intellectual property solicitors assist clients with drafting and negotiating licensing rights and commercial agreements to protect and exploit their intellectual property.

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Our IP lawyers provide legal support in managing and resolving disputes over intellectual property rights, ensuring businesses maintain control over their IP assets.

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If you have developed a new invention that improves an existing process and offers tangible benefits, you may have something to patent. Our patent attorneys provide expert advice on securing comprehensive protection for innovations.

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Trade marks are a vital part of any successful business model and a key intellectual property asset. Our intellectual property experts help businesses secure and enforce their trade marks to strengthen brand protection.

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Why choose Foot Anstey?

At Foot Anstey, we assist our clients with all intellectual property issues related to ownership, registration, enforcement, and exploitation of their IP rights. Our intellectual property lawyers take a holistic approach to helping businesses manage, enforce, and capitalise on their intellectual property, whether through proactive protection, dispute resolution, or strategic IP transactions. Given our deep understanding of intellectual property law and enforcement mechanisms, we help clients avoid litigation costs by securing the right protection from the outset.

Our intellectual property law team is made up of creative problem-solvers who provide flexible solutions tailored to clients’ needs. This could include working in-house for clients or offering outsourced legal functions for leadership teams. Our IP expertise extends beyond the UK, as we regularly collaborate with partner intellectual property law firms in the US, Europe, Australia and South Africa.

In difficult situations where intellectual property rights are challenged or enforcement action is necessary, our experienced intellectual property lawyers are prepared to act decisively. Our approach prioritises cost-effective and efficient resolution strategies, ensuring businesses can protect their IP assets without unnecessary exposure to litigation.

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Our intellectual property lawyers provide expert intellectual property advice to help businesses secure and maximise the value of their IP assets.We understands the commercial importance of IP rights and advises businesses on the best and most cost-effective solutions to maximise value and achieve commercial objectives.

With extensive experience across multiple sectors, our intellectual property team provides clients with strategic and practical IP legal support to help them navigate the complexities of intellectual property law.

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What do our clients say?

“Foot Anstey is an exceptional firm. The team is proficient, effective, responsive, technically competent, adaptable with high problem solving and communication skills. Foot Anstey has superior capabilities to manage cross border IP matters for large transnational clients.”

Legal 500 2025

“Foot Anstey have plenty of resource in their team to meet our needs and they understand the commercial value of our portfolio, how to protect it and how to add further value.”

Chambers UK 2025

“The team are exceptionally knowledgeable and are able to offer a number of potential solutions based on the outcome required. The solutions take into account all possible outcomes, giving a fair and unbiased assessment.”

Legal 500 2024

“The approachability, expertise, and transparency in all work we conduct is highly regarded.”

Legal 500 2024

“Foot Anstey LLP are an excellent firm that have high quality clients. They are responsive and collaborate seamlessly across many jurisdictions.”

Legal 500 2024

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