IP / IT
Information Technology and E-Commerce
We act for numerous IT companies on joint ventures
in internet portals, licensing, distributorship and franchising
of IT rights, Internet Service Providers, Application Service Providers,
and Internet Contents Providers. We have had extensive experience
in drafting outsourcing agreements, hardware and software agreements,
web-development agreements, web-hosting agreements, video-on-demand
services agreements, with an increasing focus on issues relating
to running telecommunication and E-commerce businesses in the PRC.
We work closely with our Beijing office in providing services to
our clients with business interests in the PRC. Our Beijing office
is a real asset for this aspect.
We also act for a number of securities brokerage
firms in on-line trading in relation to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's
third generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System,
Order Routing System, and related systems. We continue to expand
our experience at the pace of technology.
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Infringement
Richards Butler have for many years been known
as having one of the strongest litigation practices in the region,
and this is also reflected in its prosecution and defence of infringement
proceedings for all nature of IP and related rights. Whether applying
for Anton Pillar Orders, interlocutory injunctions, or pursuing
regular infringement actions, we have the expertise and personnel
support to move effectively and quickly. We are one of only a few
firms to have patent infringement experience, and we acted for the
successful party in Hong Kong's first High Court domain name dispute
action.
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Media & Entertainment
We have wide experience in both contentious
and non-contentious matters, on behalf of individual artists, film
companies, newspapers, record companies, entertainment retail outlets
and major international publishing houses and multi-media companies.
We have represented such parties in all aspects of their businesses,
in particular defamation (including over the internet) and breach
of contract disputes (including employment), publicity rights and
regulatory issues.
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Trade Marks, Copyright, Patents & Designs
We receive substantial IP work from a large
number of public and private companies in Hong Kong engaged in a
wide range of industries, from overseas law firms, patent and trade
mark agents, and directly from overseas companies. Our IP work includes
patent, design and trade mark registrations, opposition and rectification
proceedings, enforcement (civil and criminal) of IP rights in Hong
Kong, PRC and worldwide, developing IP rights protection, drafting
and negotiating IP contracts e.g. franchising, licensing, distributorship,
manufacturing and transfer of know how. We pride ourselves in our
efficiency and speed of response.
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