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Jon Moorhouse

Intellectual property and commercial lawyer Jon has over 20 years’ international experience, many spent in-house with global corporations, providing legal support to senior leaders. Jon has extensive experience in advising businesses on a wide range of IP, commercial and corporate contractual matters, with a keen focus on the energy sector having advised Shell for over a decade as their Senior Legal Counsel. Jon is an expert on how to protect and commercialise technology and creative ideas, software, data, designs and brands, whilst managing the risks presented by the IP rights of competitors, partners and customers, whether operating alone or in collaborations or ventures with others. Jon can advise on creating, licensing and assessing the strength of portfolios of trade secrets, patents, copyright, design rights and trade marks, and works with his clients to develop and implement IP reviews and strategies to support this, along with IP governance and compliance programmes. Jon’s commercial and corporate experience includes confidentiality, supply, procurement and secondment arrangements, and advising on the IP and information sharing aspects of venture capital investments, acquisitions, divestments, projects and joint ventures. · Keystone Law

EnglandIntellectual Property, Commercial

About

Jon Moorhouse is an intellectual property and commercial lawyer with over 20 years’ international experience, much of it in-house for global corporations and including more than a decade advising Shell as Senior Legal Counsel. He advises on protecting and commercialising technology, software, data, designs and brands, and on IP portfolio management, governance and compliance, together with commercial and corporate contractual matters, with a particular focus on the energy sector.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyCommercialCorporate / M&AEnergyTechnology Transactions

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Expertise

Energy (including power, nuclear and renewables)IP portfolio creation, assessment and licensingTechnology commercialisation (software, data, designs, creative works)Trade secrets, patents, copyright, design rights and trade marksIP governance and complianceCommercial contracts (confidentiality, supply, procurement, secondments)IP aspects of venture capital, acquisitions, divestments, projects and joint ventures

Admissions

  • Solicitor, England & Wales (qualified 2001)
  • Member, The Law Society of England & Wales
  • Member, Licensing Executives Society