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Your intellectual property, for example your curriculum or your logo, is one of your most important assets. A school is only as good as its name and the curriculum that is taught there. Such intellectual property may be a future potential source of income, it may be a means of differentiating your school, it may just be a means of protecting your school’s reputation – or you may be looking to franchise your school’s name internationally. Whatever your school’s particular interests and concerns we will be able to help you identify, capture, exploit and enforce your intellectual property.
Browne Jacobson is one of the few firms that is ranked in the top tiers of the legal directories for both education and intellectual property. We are considered experts in both areas which means that whether you have intellectual property issues with education flavour or a school with a issue that involves intellectual property our team will be able to assist you. We have a vast range of experience advising public bodies, particularly in the education sector, on the sensitive strategic and operational issues arising from intellectual property and how you can protect it. We offer practical, commercial advice on the full range of intellectual property issues that you might come across.
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As schools and academies you get plenty of Freedom of Information requests. When you answer them you are effectively publishing the information to the world.
In a word (or three) no, not really. Before we get overexcited about BA’s hefty fine, let’s put it in perspective and remember that for the moment it is the Information Commissioner’s Office intention to levy this fine – BA will now make representations about it.
The Manchester education team at Browne Jacobson has established itself as the go to law firm for education work across the North West following a strong year in which it has achieved 36 per cent growth.
They are effective, efficient and user-friendly.
An open, accessible firm with a desire to partner with, rather than simply work for, the client.
The team’s approach is collegiate and collaborative. We treat them as an extension to the team and get a lot of value from both the work they deliver and the way in which they work with us, to help us upskill the team and ultimately make us more self-sustaining.
The team is a unique one that focuses on how to provide value at each step and anticipate issues. The team partners with its clients and helps the client strategise optimal outcomes, in both contentious and non-contentious matters.
Each individual is approachable, engaged and truly tries to understand us as a client and what motivates our instructing officers too. They really think outside the box and try to pre-empt our needs.
Intellectual Property - We worked with Lampton Academy to develop a new curriculum development and licensing agreement framework, so that they were able to create, own and then licence to other schools a new curriculum – so both improving their own means of delivering their curriculum at the same time as creating a new revenue stream for the school.
Privacy - The issue of privacy is of particular importance when it comes to children, we are very aware of that and of the importance to both schools and parents to see that a child’s right to a private life is protected at all costs. We have particular expertise in ensuring that those rights are protected, to the fullest extent permissible by law.
Defamation - We have worked with a large number of schools to protect their reputation, whether that be by means of dealing with the press, or broadcast TV programmes, or in relation to the bad mouthing of schools by parents on social media. Understanding how best to prevent a school being libelled or slandered and assisting the school in avoiding that, is as important as dealing with it when it happens.
If you are thinking of academy conversion and becoming an independently managed, publicly funded school then make sure you use leading education sector lawyers to make your academy conversion a smooth and straightforward process.
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Whilst schools will be familiar with the traditional governor compliance issues, they may need support.
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