Brands – trade marks and designs

Your challenges

We understand the importance of brands to our clients. The key to establishing and maintaining a strong brand lies in developing a sound brand strategy and having a good team of lawyers to manage your portfolio.

Achieving your ambitions

We are able to offer you the full range of legal services relating to brands, namely from strategic advice on brand strategy, conducting and advising on clearance searches and filing and prosecution of your trade mark and design applications through to licensing and franchising agreements.

We believe that a brand is only strong if efforts are made to enforce those rights against third parties in the unfortunate event this becomes necessary. We can help you do this and advise you on the most effective approaches whether through formal court proceedings, settlement negotiations or other forms of dispute resolution such as the domain name dispute procedure.

The strength you need

You will have access to a dedicated team of brand lawyers, comprising one partner, five solicitors and one paralegal. The partner in the team is also a qualified barrister and registered trade mark and patent attorney. You will be able to tap into our varied and extensive experience in giving advice on brand protection, licensing and enforcement to a range of clients from plcs to technology start-ups; and from universities to large scale corporations such as sportswear manufacturers.

Lawyers you can trust

Our work for our clients is highly rated across the UK, and our head of brands is named as a leading individual in Legal 500 and Chambers UK.

Our lawyers have a reputation for having a “sensible and proactive approach” with “good response times”.

Intellectual property
Intellectual property