Our Intellectual Property and Commercial team includes specialist practitioners who advise clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters.
Our work for clients in the sports sector includes advice on the following:
- Brand strategy and protection, including trade mark and domain name clearance and trade mark co-existence agreements
- Merchandising and product endorsement agreements
- Website content and Internet-related issues
- Creation, ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights
- Image rights and rights of privacy
- Confidentiality agreements and breaches of confidence
- Acquisition and disposal of intellectual property rights
- Risk management, litigation and dispute resolution.
We also assist our sports business clients on a wide variety of commercial agreements and in complying with the myriad of regulations which impact on their day-to-day businesses, whether of general application or specific to the sports business sector. Our range of work includes:
- Sponsorship agreements (including naming rights and pouring rights agreements)
- Staging and event management agreements
- Broadcasting and production agreements
- Seat debenture terms and conditions
- Ticket distribution and agency agreements
- Facilities management, outsourcing and sub-contracting arrangements including outsourcing of catering services, IT and business processes
- Consultancy arrangements including appointments of sponsorship marketing agencies
- Standard terms and conditions of business including website terms and conditions and e-commerce advice
- Advertising issues including copy clearance (television, print and online)
- Sales promotions including prize draws and competitions
- Constitutional issues and sporting rules and regulations.
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