Intellectual Property Law & Media

Protect your ideas with legal partners who understand intellectual property.

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Intellectual property and media services for your business

Your brand and ideas are what make you unique and set you apart from your competition. Intellectual property (IP) plays a pivotal role in the protection of your brand and ideas, how your business competes and succeeds, both at home and in world markets.
  • Brands – Trade Marks, Domain Names, Design Rights

    Register and defend the brands and designs that define your company.

  • Copyright and Database Rights

    Secure your creative content across print, digital, and media platforms.

  • Patents

    Safeguard and commercialise inventions and technical innovations.

  • Licensing and Agreements

    Create commercial frameworks to license, share, or sell your IP safely.

  • Media Disputes

    Uphold your rights or enforce them against infringement in the UK and internationally.

  • Reputation Management and Control

    Handle media, publishing, and reputational risks with confidence.

Speak to a Legal Partner

Our team support you to navigate complexity, seize opportunity and move forward with legal clarity.

 How can Irwin Mitchell’s IP lawyers help you? 

We help you protect what matters most to you, whether that is your brand, ideas and reputation. 

We are a full-service intellectual property practice comprising both solicitors and trade mark attorneys, meaning we can provide our clients with a seamless and integrated service across the full spectrum and lifecycle of IP rights. 

Our work ranges from rights protection, registration and management, commercial exploitation through to disputes and enforcement, both in the UK and internationally. 

We work with entrepreneurs, start-up’s through to global brands protecting, managing and enforcing their IP.  Whatever stage you are at, we can help you start up, scale up and or sell up. We've experience across a wide range of industries and sectors, including:

  • Retail and consumer goods
  • Financial and professional services
  • Leisure and hospitality
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Media, publishing & entertainment
  • Sport.

You will get fast, clear, no-nonsense advice about your options and their timescales, costs, and likely outcomes. We’ll empower you to make decisions by giving you the information you need when you need it.

Contact our Specialists

Get strategic advice from a team that knows how to protect and grow your business. Please complete our enquiry form and one of our experts will contact you by the next working day.


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What areas of IP can Irwin Mitchell’s lawyers help with?

Our IP lawyers can help you with:

  • Advertising and marketing – We help make sure your ads and marketing messages are compliant respond to complaints and investigations if they arise.  
  • Anti-counterfeiting and piracy – We can help you devise anti-counterfeiting and piracy programmes, working with law enforcement agencies.
  • Brands – We help you identify what rights you can protect, Our powerful AI software tools allow us to search and screen trade marks registries in over 190 countries together with common law searches including company and domain names and social media handle to ensure you are free to use and register your chosen brands, including through registered trade marks and/or registered design protection, whether in the UK or internationally.
  • Confidential information and trade secrets - We can advise on how you can benefit from these valuable rights, ensure you capture and protect them and take action when they are misused.
  • Commercialise your intellectual property – We can help you buy or sell any of your IP, licence and franchise it.
  • Copyrights and database rights – We can advise on how you can benefit from these valuable rights; ensure you capture and protect them and take action when they are misused.
  • IP disputes and enforcement – We work with you to resolve IP disputes quickly, cost-effectively, and on the best achievable terms. Our experience includes securing urgent injunctions, resolve most matters out of court but have the experience, expertise, strategic insight, and tenacity to minimise risks and ensure optimum outcomes from court proceedings too.
  • Patents Working alongside our trusted patent attorneys, we help clients build a strategy, secure patent protection, launch new products and services and commercialise their inventions and navigate patent infringement and ownership disputes
  • Reputation, Defamation, Privacy & Crisis Management - We provide advice to high-profile and high net-worth individuals and companies and their officers, who find themselves at risk of having their reputations damaged by a threatened publication
  • Intellectual property strategy – We help you understand the rights that are available and relevant to your activities and ambitions, curate an IP strategy bespoke to you, to protect, manage and enforce your rights, whether you are at the start of your business or for preparing to exit/sale, and whether you are operating domestically or internationally.
  • Intellectual property audit – We carry out a thorough review to help you identify the extent of your IP rights, any gaps, risks and opportunities so you can maximise the commercial value of your IP.
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Who do we help?

Our IP lawyers can help:

  • Businesses – start-ups through the global corporates in the UK and internationally
  • Business owners and senior executives – CEOs, CFOs, GCs, Marketing and HR professionals, risk managers,
  • Individuals – entrepreneurs, shareholders, directors, high profile individuals and influencers
  • Professionals & Advisors – lawyers, accountants, banks, investors, PR agencies, advisers Agents for media and sports personalities.

Here’s where you’ll find us

We are a full-service firm with solicitors in 21 UK locations, giving you national expertise with localised support.
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Our commitment to you

Our experts always start by listening, so we understand what matters most from day one.
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    Clear legal guidance

    You will always get straightforward, honest advice, with regular updates to keep you clear on the way forward.

  • 02
    Specialist knowledge

    A wide-ranging team of trusted specialists who understand what it takes to protect your future, your family or your business.

  • 03
    Your needs first

    Whether you’re navigating complex personal situations or business decisions, we take the time to understand your world and what’s at stake.

Recognised for excellence. Chosen for care.

  • Legal 500 Top Tier Firm UK 2026
  • Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025
  • ePrivateClient Top Law Firms 2025
  • Chambers High Net Worth 2025