Helping gaming companies to protect their brands
The UK is home to the largest video games sector in Europe and continues to thrive.
Our team of video game law experts advise on the full range of considerations from brand protection to video games tax relief, and is ideally placed to help interactive entertainment companies maximise their intellectual assets in this fast-paced and innovative sector.
Our team is praised by clients for explaining complex issues in terms that can easily be understood, we have experience of helping gaming companies to protect their brands. We advise on all intellectual property matters throughout their whole lifecycle, from video game creation, video game licensing and video game copyright law through to exploitation (including on platforms such as Steam and App Stores) and legal enforcement. We regularly assist clients with IP clearance, an essential aspect of game development with input from so many different creators.
How Our Video Games & Interactive Entertainment Experts Can Help
Our advertising experts can guide you through the regulation of traditional and in-game advertisements, including guidance around in-game purchases with data protection experts on-hand to ensure compliant handling of customer data and the recently implemented ICO age-appropriate design code (aka the “Children’s Code”).
Intellectual Property
We advise on all intellectual property matters throughout their whole lifecycle, from video game creation, video game licensing and video game copyright law through to exploitation (including on platforms such as Steam and App Stores) and legal enforcement. We regularly assist clients with IP clearance, an essential aspect of game development with input from so many different creators.
Talent Immigration
With the industry relying on talent from overseas, our immigration team has the expertise and know-how to help you navigate the UK immigration system.
ESports Industry
With the burgeoning esports industry on the rise, and particularly given the partnership agreed between the Commonwealth Games Federation and Global Esports Federation, our experience in the sports sector can help with endorsements and intellectual property agreements, contracts and their negotiation as well as employment and consultancy agreements.
Our Video Games & Interactive Entertainment Experts
Why choose Shakespeare Martineau?
- Our team has a real depth of experience, ensuring you will only receive the best commercial legal knowledge bespoke to your business.
- We regularly appear in the Court of Appeal, High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court on a wide variety of cases, many of which have received national recognition.
- We work regularly with overseas clients and coordinate actions across other jurisdictions in related proceedings. We have built up a network of overseas lawyers with whom we have worked on a variety of cases and can offer our clients a global service.
Key Projects
Multinational Gaming Company
Trademark Dispute
We advised a multinational gaming company in a trade mark dispute with its competitor concerning the name of one of its games, helping our client to successfully oppose the competitor’s application for a similar mark and defend an application to revoke its own mark for non-use.
Games Workshop
Business Immigration
We represent Games Workshop, a British manufacturer and global retailer of miniature war games, with all business immigration work, and in particular focused, in years before, on Brexit and securing EU settled status for their European-strong workforce.
Equity Investor
Games Company Investment
We acted for a private equity investor in relation to an investment in a games company that creates novel tabletop board games based on its own proprietary rights as well as content licensed in from third party video games companies.
Our Other IP, Technology, Media & Communications Services
Patents & New Technologies
Supporting clients in the commercial exploitation and enforcement of patents and other innovations
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