Our Technology Litigation team provides dispute resolution services to clients in all industry sectors.  We have significant experience and expertise in a range of technology litigation matters, and particularly in disputes relating to hardware implementation, software design and implementation, systems integration and development projects, IT outsourcing and off-shoring, software licensing, software copyright, (including ‘look and feel’), computer implemented inventions / software patents, database protection and extraction, e-commerce and online contracts, online infringement issues and ISP defences, online and computer fraud, including criminal actions, and domain names, including cyber-squatting, typo-squatting and other domain parking.

We are known for giving pragmatic and commercial advice. Our aim with all dispute resolution is to obtain the best result for our clients in a cost effective and efficient way. In many cases, pursuing a formal dispute resolution process (eg court action or arbitration) will not provide the best value for clients or meet their commercial requirements or goals, particularly where the dispute involves an ongoing IT project or commercial relationship. Many technology disputes are better suited to being resolved by alternative dispute resolution and we have acted for clients in numerous negotiations and mediations that have resolved complex and commercially sensitive disputes.

Our Technology Litigation team works closely with our technology, commercial, outsourcing, and intellectual property teams to provide a fully scaleable service. Our close working relationship means we are quickly able to form the right team to provide the best service to our clients. For example, where a technology or IT outsourcing dispute arises mid-project or otherwise requires agreements to be renegotiated, we are able to involve specialist technology project lawyers in the renegotiation and drafting process.

Relevant experience includes advising:

• A transport ticketing development company in a dispute with a subcontractor where the subcontractor had failed to design and implement stable software in accordance with the timeframe and specification in the contract
• A global IT outsourcing company in a dispute relating to the integration and licensing of address data verification software for a nationally implemented information platform
• A multinational logistics company in a dispute relating to the breakdown of a joint venture software development project
• A software development company in copyright infringement proceedings against a previous development partner of the company and requiring the delivery up of infringing software
• A global IT outsourcing company in a dispute with a software developer subcontractor relating to the software developer’s failure to design and implement the software solution in accordance with an agreed specification