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Clean Technology

Capital-intensive clean technology is going to be a key component of New Zealand's prosperity as we move away from a commodity based economy.

James & Wells' expertise helps ensure a growing number of world-class innovative companies take the right steps to protect and commercialise their intellectual property.

Angel and venture capital investors expect you to have your IP protected. Patents and trade marks are crucial leverage in licensing and partnership deals, or if you want to position yourself for a big-money buy-out.

Protect, exploit and enforce your clean technology inventions with James & Wells' help.

We can:

• Conduct freedom-to-operate searching to ensure third party rights are not infringed
• Help to ensure inventions and other works created by employees, contractors and third party collaborators are actually owned by your business
• Protect all of your technology through the correct combination of patent claims
• Ensure confidentiality obligations, non disclosure agreements, intellectual property ownership and restraints of trade are documented in employee contracts
• Establish watertight supply agreements, distribution agreements, licence agreements and use our networks to help you locate potential licensees or investors
• Give you advice on selecting a strong, distinctive and readily enforceable clean technology brand, and help register the brand trade mark worldwide
• Help manage intellectual property disputes - such as allegations that you infringe someone else's rights, or your intellectual property is misused - that may arise as you take your product or technology to the world.

James & Wells has clean technology IP experts available in all four of its offices, so you will get individual attention tailored to your needs.

To ensure we have fingers on the pulse of your industry, and understand the issues involved, we are members of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Business Network.