Shakespeare Martineau LLP fields a team of specialists focused on the IP aspects of commercial deals, corporate transactions, and joint ventures, chiefly focusing on the manufacturing and telecoms industries. With vast expertise in patent and trade mark infringement claims, the Birmingham-based head of IP Nicholas Briggs routinely acts on behalf of national and international clients. Mauro Paiano concentrates on advertising disputes, while Stewart Argo is a commercial contract expert. Daniel Kelly is well versed in designs, copyright, and IP rights proceedings.
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Testimonials
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‘Mauro Paiano is excellent, knowledgeable and responsive.’
‘Very commercially minded, giving very practical advice to lay clients. As a provincial firm, compares well on price with the London firms, without any sacrifice in quality of work.’
‘Mauro Paiano is very experienced practitioner who brings a wealth of knowledge to cases. He can handle all aspects of IP from patents to copyright, along with trade marks and designs.’
‘Mauro Paiano is heavily involved in IP litigation, along with his associate Daniel Kelly. I am a patent attorney and am aware that they have litigated some high-profile patent disputes all the way to judgment. I am conscious they also operate with other types of IP such as trade marks and designs. Mauro's team has delivered CPDs at our firm of patent and trade mark attorneys before.’
‘Mauro Paiano is an exceptional IP litigator. His team is strategic, tenacious, and commercially astute, delivering outstanding results in complex disputes.’
- 'They are a top firm, and deserve a higher profile than they currently have. They have national clients whereas I think the perception is merely "good regional firm". Nick Briggs and Danny Kelly are both outstanding.’
‘Nick Briggs, partner, is probably the "best" of my instructing solicitors. Good strategic sense but gets stuck into detail as well. He has had to deal with a lot of staffing issues as well (he is either head partner or one of the senior ones), which I'm sure must be draining but he copes with it very well, and his staff speak highly of his sympathetic, understanding, attitude. Daniel Kelly is an up-and-comer who really thinks things through and produces excellent work. ’
‘Nick Briggs, Mauro Paiano and Selina Hinchcliffe are all top-class lawyers bringing commerciality and sense to complex areas. Nick is the lead in the team and guides the team with aplomb.’
Key clients
- Salts Healthcare Limited
- Belcan Test Systems Limited
- Norcros Plc t/a triton
- Phineas Group (UK) Limited
- Don & Low Limited
- Novomatic AG
- University of the Arts London
- EVVA SICHERHEITSTECHNOLOGIE GmbH
- John Gillman & Sons (Electrical) Limited
- Anglia Ruskin University
- DLP Limited
- Aberystwyth University
- Supra UK Limited
Work highlights
Advising Salts Healthcare Limited in its patent infringement claim against Pelican Healthcare in relation to patented features of an ostomy bag.
Advising EVVA SICHERHEITSTECHNOLOGIE GmbH in its patent infringement claim against several defendants in relation to their patent for a key for a cylinder-lock locking system.
Advising Supra UK Limited on its patent licensing programme internationally, in particular on a number of license structures with the US where the market is carved up with a key US Inc.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Selina Hinchliffe; Nicholas Briggs
Other key lawyers
Mauro Paiano; Stewart Argo; Daniel Kelly