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The team at Ffrench Legal provides sound, cost effective legal advice. Intellectual Property is a complex area of law. Our team has the legal skills, experience and understanding to guide our clients.
As specialists in intellectual property, Ffrench Legal regularly advises on intellectual property issues in areas including copyright, designs, trade marks and patent law.
The first step is understanding your intellectual property, the next is to ensure that it is protected. Many businesses fail to recognise the value of their intellectual property.
Our intellectual property services include:
Brand Protection
Why do you need to protect your brand?
Prudent business owners take their brand protection a step further than the mandatory business name registration and understand that only a trade mark provides you with the exclusive rights to exploit your brand within Australia. Trade mark registration is an Australian wide protection.
Failing to protect your brand adequately could mean loss of profits and potentially an expensive process of recovery.
Ffrench Legal has the expertise to assist you in obtaining trade marks for your business. We provide a holistic approach taking into account not only your trade mark needs but also your brand from a marketing, business and legal prospective.
Brand Infringement
What would your business be without its brand? Consider the following:
Infringement can be deliberate and blatant or innocent and coincidental. Either way it is damaging. You need to protect and enforce your brand.
Idea Commercialisation
It is one thing to obtain protection for your intellectual property but another to make money from it. Ffrench Legal has extensive experience and planning services to assist you.
We can assist you to:
Ffrench Legal will provide you with the guidance and assistance throughout the commercialisation process.
Copyright
If you have written a book, written a song, painted a picture or have taken a photo you may have copyright in those things. Ffrench Legal specialises in identifying copyright issues and we are able to provide you with sound advice on how to protect any copyright you may have and how to avoid infringing the copyright of others.
Not owning your copyright can be an expensive lesson. We can assist you with assignment and managing of your rights.
Patents and Design
We work closely with specialist patent and design attorneys when needed.
We assist clients to commercialise their patents and designs as well as protect and enforce their rights when needed.
Our team
The Ffrench Legal intellectual property team is made up of:
Postal Address
PO Box 2656
Southport Queensland 4215
Street Address
Level 4, 7 Bay Street
Southport Queensland 4215
Web www.ffrenchlegal.com
Email info@ffrenchlegal.com
Phone +61 7 5591 7555
Fax +61 7 5591 7450
