TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
With a strong track record in managing trade mark portfolios and design invalidity disputes, Shoosmiths LLP consistently acts for clients across the brands, tech, and life sciences industries. The firm’s lawyers offer guidance to global brands on strategic, enforcement, and prosecution matters, with Birmingham-based lead Andrew Brennan primarily focusing on the commercialisation of IP assets. Dominic Murphy is an experienced European trade mark attorney, Nicola Jenkins is knowledgeable in the licensing of key patents, while Eloise di Pasqua concentrates on IP infringement matters. The practice consistently works alongside the venture capital division on early-stage investments into disruptive tech companies and diagnostics.
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Commercial (IP)
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Andrew heads Shoosmiths’ 20 strong national IP team. He is recognised as a leading intellectual property lawyer who "knows his IP” and “provides solid, targeted and fast advice”.
Clients find him approachable, pragmatic, agile and very user-friendly.
Andrew’s practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on the technology, engineering and consumer brand sectors. He works for global tech companies and household brands through to pioneering SME’s and disruptive start-ups.
Passionate about innovation, Andrew is recognised for his excellence in handling complex disputes with a technical element involving patents, confidential information and software. He also helps technology clients in relation to their strategic R&D programmes and specialised IP commercialisation arrangements.
Andrew's experience covers a range of technologies, including oil and gas well perforation, various waste to energy processes, robotics, photonic printing, supercontinuum lasers, friction stir welding, graphene filtration, sealed grafts, stroke detection equipment, autonomous vehicles, software and many more.
In the consumer brand space, Andrew has handled countless trade mark and design disputes and licensing deals on behalf of well-known and up and coming brands.
Recent work examples include:
- conducting multi-jurisdictional patent dispute regarding reactive shaped charges on behalf of global designer and manufacturer of gas and oil well perforating equipment;
- advising on patent and know-how licence dispute between two global engineering companies;
- handling international patent licensing programme on behalf of global photonic printing company;
- advising on complex pre-clinical and clinical milestone co-development and patent licensing agreement on behalf of US life sciences company;
- working as part of an international team to help one of the world’s largest vodka manufacturers enforce and protect a key trade mark; and
- advising numerous well known cycle brands in relation to brand protection, enforcement and licensing matters.
Career
Andrew trained and qualified with DLA Piper. He was a partner at another national law firm before joining Shoosmiths as a partner in 2015.
Memberships
Praxis Unico, Midlands Intellectual Property Society.
Education
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys; Oxford University – post graduate diploma in intellectual property law; Leeds University - law.
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Key clients
- Reliance Brands Apple Sincerely Ltd Mastercard IM Group Limited Whitbread Stonegate Pubs Anitox Dr Craig Wright AK Retail (Yours Clothing) Topps Tiles Plc PeopleCert Volkswagen Group Capita Plc Integral Powertrain Ltd (trading as Helix) Lundbeck Pharmacosmos University of Nottingham Oak Furnitureland
Work highlights
Advising Dr Craig Wright in defending a high-profile claim by brought by COPA.