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Jowanna Conboye

Jowanna is an expert intellectual property and information technology lawyer. She has over eight years’ experience advising organisations on the best ways to protect their intellectual property (IP) from creation through to exploitation. Jowanna works with businesses on their IP portfolios covering trade marks, copyright, design rights, and patents. · Spencer West LLP

EnglandIntellectual Property, Information Technology

About

Jowanna is an expert intellectual property and information technology lawyer with over eight years’ experience advising organisations on protecting IP from creation through to exploitation. She advises on trade marks, copyright, design rights and patents and specialises in transactional IP, software and IT commercial agreements, data protection and the IP/IT aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyInformation TechnologyData ProtectionCorporate / M&AProcurement

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Expertise

Trade marksCopyrightDesign rightsPatentsTransactional IP (transfers, assignments, licensing)Software development contracts (including agile methodologies)Software licensing and platform/SaaS agreementsValue‑added reseller and systems integration agreementsIT outsourcingData protection (controllers/processors, subcontracting and data-sharing arrangements)M&A — IP, IT and data protection due diligence and documentationGovernment and local authority contracts and procurementAdvising start-ups, SMEs and multinational clientsCross-border technology transactions