Our trade mark attorneys
& trade mark services

Protecting brand assets with trade marks allows businesses of all sizes to invest in their brand with confidence, build brand equity and leverage that equity for growth.

A trade mark is a legal shield which underpins a successful brand. It identifies your business, and carries your unique message to the market. It can protect a domain name, prevent brand theft, and brand encroachment. It can also become enormously valuable, both to your ongoing business and as an asset on the balance sheet.

As a UK trade mark firm, we have a strong and successful team of trade mark professionals, who work with clients in all business sectors – including FMCG, media, financial services, IT, life sciences and engineering. Our team includes expert trade mark attorneys, solicitors and paralegals.

Our trade mark attorneys have much more to offer than superior legal skills. Their communication skills – the ability to listen, analyse, explain and persuade – are crucial for the best work. Their commercial skills allow them to understand your business and advise you in a long-term strategic way.

Our trade mark professionals are experts in securing trade mark rights. We also work with our clients in many other ways.

Protection and strategy

  • Assessing your requirements and providing the best trade mark attorney team to work with you
  • Working with you to identify available and protectable trade marks effectively
  • Securing your position by establishing robust trade mark protection
  • Creating and implementing national/global trade mark filing strategies
  • Preparing, prosecuting and maintaining trade mark rights throughout a brand’s lifecycle.

Competitor and strategic issues

  • Conducting competitor studies, preventing encroachment and monitoring competitor trade mark filings
  • Conducting infringement clearance studies to safeguard your new product launches
  • Advising on the validity of competitor trade mark registrations
  • Transacting trade mark rights by negotiating sales and purchases, and licences in and out
  • Developing trade mark protection strategies which maximise your financial benefit.

Disputes

  • Conducting opposition and cancellation proceedings at the UK Intellectual Property Office and around the world
  • Defending our clients’ trade mark rights
  • Challenging competitor trade mark registrations
  • Managing disputes worldwide, including oppositions, cancellation and infringement actions, and domain name disputes
  • Negotiating settlement agreements when this is the best course for our clients.

Our services

Patents

All our patent attorneys have high level technical skills, knowledge and experience. Together they cover all areas of technology and form one large resource of expert technical and legal capability.

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Designs

We have an outstanding team of design specialists. Our team includes attorneys, solicitors and paralegals so that we can deal effectively with any situation that may arise.

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Copyright

We have an outstanding team of copyright experts. Our team includes registered design attorneys, solicitors and paralegals so that we can deal effectively with any situation that may arise.

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IP strategy

IP strategy is the body of planned measures a business adopts, in order to use intellectual property to secure business advantage over its competitors.

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IP disputes

Our team of IP solicitors and attorney litigators are specialists in all aspects of IP disputes and IP dispute resolution

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IP legal support, training & patent renewals

Aside from our core areas of expertise, we are able to offer various support services which supplement or expand on these core areas.

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