Commercial & Technology Belfast: Experience

• McAvoy Group on a number of non-disclosure agreements with third party organisations who are interested in availing of its services
• Allstate Northern Ireland on a range of R&D collaborations, IT agreements and data privacy advice.
• Heineken on business process outsourcing arrangements, IP and data protection matters and other commercial agreements.
• The Old Bushmills Distillery Ltd on its various commercial agreements and on the protection and commercialisation of its intellectual property rights.
• Irish Football Association on the commercialisation and enforcement of its intellectual property rights and on the new outsourced IT player registration database.
• Neurovalens on the protection and commercialisation of its technology.
• BrainWaveBank on a collaboration agreement and intellectual property assignments.
• Axial 3D on the preparation of contractual terms and conditions and end user licences, and in the development of the customer ordering process prior to implementation on the company’s web portal.
• ITradeIn.com on the incorporation of a subsidiary to manage the platform and to offer it as a white label software service to other businesses.
• McCloskey International, heavy machinery provider, on development of new products and services, protection of designs and on the review of their international distribution network.
• BeautifulBundle on the terms and conditions that govern its online platform and its app.
• Rota Pal on a new mobile application to assist NHS workers with a cloud based portal to manage their rota remotely.
• 3fivetwo Healthcare on an agreement with a US counterparty to licence the client’s cutting edge remote, video based medical diagnostic service.

Contentious IP/Data Protection experience includes advising:

• Energia to draft a suite of new IT documentation for the business to use going forward together with an IT agreement governing the client’s requirements for a new Product Management Portal.
• News Group Newspapers in the defence of proceedings brought in the Northern Ireland High Court by a firm of solicitors for defamation, misuse of private information and breach of copyright.
• A multinational technology company on the defence of several High Court claims involving alleged breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998, defamation and misuse of private information.
• A market leading manufacturer on a multi-jurisdictional patent infringement claim which included successfully opposing an application to stay High Court proceedings in Northern Ireland on the basis of revocation proceedings commenced in the UKIPO.
• A global pharmaceutical company on a patent infringement claim and the taking of evidence in NI for use in foreign proceedings.
• A US based retailer on High Court proceedings involving allegations of passing off, copyright and trade mark infringement.
• An online shipping company in the prosecution of a trade mark infringement and malicious falsehood claim involving keyword advertising and alleged breaches of the Comparative Advertising Directive.
• An NI based interactive video technology company on a claim involving copyright infringement and an alleged breach of a non-disclosure agreement.