Waterfront’s IP team is made up of specialist solicitors with extensive experience across the full spectrum of intellectual property law. We help clients protect, manage, exploit, enforce, and defend their IP rights with strategic, commercially focused advice that reflects the realities of their business.
Our service is partner-led from start to finish. Senior lawyers are actively involved throughout your matter, ensuring you benefit from the highest level of expertise and continuity. We work with start-ups, SMEs, global companies, and individual creators across a wide range of industries, including fashion, technology, entertainment, and financial services.
Our services include trade mark clearance, portfolio management, and litigation; copyright advisory work, licensing, and disputes; design rights protection and enforcement; patent litigation in both the High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC); anti-counterfeiting strategies including customs enforcement; domain name disputes; and protection of trade secrets and confidential information through contracts and litigation.
We tailor our approach to suit the scale and complexity of each matter. Our efficient billing models and use of senior solicitors as advocates help control costs, particularly in IPEC proceedings where cost-capping applies.
Recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, our IP lawyers are known for their pragmatic advice, strong advocacy, and personable approach. We’re committed to delivering excellent service while making sure our clients feel supported and understood.
If you need IP lawyers who combine legal excellence with commercial insight, we’d love to be part of your team.
We protect your brand, safeguard your intellectual property rights, and combat counterfeiting effectively.
We help you identify, secure, license, and enforce your copyrights and database rights with clear ownership and effective protection.
Where disputes arise, we use our knowledge of design rights to help our clients achieve the best commercial results.
We are experts in domain name law and resolving domain name disputes swiftly and efficiently.
We have years of experience helping clients protect, manage, exploit, enforce and defend their intellectual property rights
We help businesses protect, commercialise, and enforce their confidential information and trade secrets.
Our particular strength is patent litigation. Our IP litigation team have acted on a wide range of patent litigation disputes across a number of industry sectors
We advise clients across the whole spectrum of trade mark rights and related rights.
We advise a wide range of clients, including early stage start ups, scaling technology companies, and established SMEs, on every aspect of commercial law and regulatory compliance.
We act for clients in a range of disputes, including IT software development & technology licensing disputes, commercial contract disputes and commercial agency disputes.
We work with founders, investors, SMEs, scale ups, and established enterprises to support corporate governance, fundraising, joint ventures, M&A, and long-term strategic planning.
We offer tailored legal advice to businesses and individuals. With a combined experience of over 30 years, we provide expert guidance on workplace law.