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Southampton Commercial Law

Complying with the law must be one of your most important considerations and you may need to consult a solicitor to ensure that any legal decisions are made with full knowledge of the Laws that may affect your business.

This section should give you a good overview some of the most important issues. However, commercial law can be complex and we would strongly advise you to contact a local lawyer before committing yourself to any legally binding contracts.

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Federation of Small Business (FSB)

The Important Business bits aside from Sales & Marketing and how to deal with them!

Regardless of your size or development stage, every business owner has to comply with many forms of business regulation, ranging from the obvious like taxation and employment law to the less apparent things such as data protection, health & safety and contractual law. These regulations are there to protect yourself, anyone who works with you and your customers. The Federation of Small Businesses exists to help business owners navigate the pathway to being compliant through advice, support, the documentation needed and even protection for when things do go wrong. So instead of having to deal with separate Solicitors, HR and Health & Safety professionals, we do it all for you.

Additional to this we also support and protect you on cybersecurity, crisis management, debt recovery, free business banking, payroll/pension service and all business insurance matters.

All this from only £3 per week.

We've been doing it now for 45 years and currently support over 160,000 businesses in the UK!

For more information, please visit www.fsb.org.uk or contact tim.brock@fsb.org.uk

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Federation of Small Business (FSB)

The Important Business bits aside from Sales & Marketing and how to deal with them! Regardless of your size or development stage, every business owner has to comply with many forms of business regulation, ranging from the obvious like taxation and employment law to the less apparent things such as data protection, health & safety and contractual law. These regulations are there to protect yourself, anyone who works with you and your customers. The Federation of Small Businesses exists to help business owners navigate the pathway to being compliant through advice, support, the documentation needed and even protection for when things do go wrong. So instead of having to deal with separate Solicitors, HR and Health & Safety professionals, we do it all for you. Additional to this we also support and protect you on cybersecurity, crisis management, debt recovery, free business banking, payroll/pension service and all business insurance matters. All this from only £3 per week. We've been doing it now for 45 years and currently support over 160,000 businesses in the UK! For more information, please visit www.fsb.org.uk or contact tim.brock@fsb.org.uk

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SPINNAKER IS A FIRM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEYS SPECIALISING IN PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND DESIGNS We are able to assist you across the full spectrum of intellectual property services - in some cases in collaboration with other parties such as solicitors, accountants and other business advisers. Our services include patents and inventions, trade marks and brands, and design registrations.

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Most businesses will have a brand name. This could be either a product i.e. clothing or a service such as a restaurant. It is important at any stage of that business to protect the brand from infringement and to give the owner the sole right to use that term for those particular goods and services. The best time to protect the brand however is at the beginning of a start up. This can help iron out any issues (such as a conflicting name already in existence). We can carry out full search and advice reports to check your chosen name is both free and eligible for trademark protection. We can then file the application in any country of your choice across the globe. We can meet you either in our main Southampton office or meet up for a coffee and a chat anywhere in the UK!

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