Bevan Brittan - Services

We combine legal IT/IP expertise with a strong commercial approach.

This “excellent” firm accrues much of its IP work from its successful public sector practice. Clients rely on the team for its rigorous and informed approach to commercially complex situations. Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession 2007

"The team is particularly strong on the projects side, and is advising Partnerships for Schools on the IT aspects of the Building Schools for the Future programme." Legal 500 2007

The lawyers in our team all specialise in intellectual property and information technology law while at the same time drawing on their strong commercial law backgrounds.

We support and advise clients in sectors where IP and/or IT are business-critical. Our clients include hi-tech manufacturing companies, companies operating in the IT industry, media companies and companies in other industries with IT and/or e-commerce interests. We also specialise in the procurement of high value IT systems and services by public sector bodies, particularly in the health and education sectors.

We combine the specialist legal skills required for IP and IT transactions with a commercial approach to contract negotiation and the exploitation and procurement of intellectual property rights.

We recently acted for Biotrace International Plc, a leader in the manufacture of microbial detection systems, in the formation of a new joint venture company, Lucigen, with the Defence Science and Technical Laboratory (DSTL), part of the MoD. DSTL granted Lucigen licences to develop and manufacture defence-critical reagents based on state of the art technology developed at Porton Down. Patent licences were critical to the joint venture and we worked closely with international patent agents on the intellectual property aspects of the deal.

In the IT field we completed a ground-breaking PFI contract for the provision of financial management systems and related support services to a collaboration of 12 Welsh NHS trusts. This procurement involved all but three of the NHS trusts in Wales and was one of the first collaborative procurements of IT services to be approved by the National Assembly for Wales.

To find out more please contact:
Martin Carroll
martin.carroll@bevanbrittan.com
0870 194 1734