Our trade marks and designs team, which includes qualified Trade
Mark Attorneys, provides a comprehensive trade mark and design
application filing service, including UK, Community Trade Mark,
Madrid Protocol and national trade mark filings across the
globe.
We conduct trade mark searches; advising on what should be
registered; how to protect a brand, design or get-up after
registration; how to maintain it and how to exploit it. We can
provide advice on licensing and assignment issues and implement
trade mark, company name, competitor and domain name watches.
We advise on and prosecute trade mark opposition, invalidity,
revocation and rectification actions, including appeals of such
actions to the 'Appointed Person', Boards of Appeal and through the
Courts. We can advise on enforcing your trade mark rights via local
trading standards authorities. We also provide comprehensive advice
on passing off and design issues and we file and prosecute UK and
Community Design applications.
We advise on the protection and enforcement of trade mark rights on
the internet having expertise in relation the use of trade marks in
adwords and the like. We also have extensive experience and file
complaints under the Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) of Nominet
and Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of ICANN, in
particular utilising such procedures via the World Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO).
However, in addition to the services you would expect from a
leading Trade Mark Attorney practice, we can also provide as part
of a 'One Stop Shop' all services in relation to trade mark and
design protection and enforcement in conjunction with our Intellectual Property team, as part of one
seamless service.
With the benefit of an integrated trade mark and design portfolio
management service, we offer a complete service to clients, not
only in the UK, but across the globe with associates in every
country of the world. With our experience of advising all forms and
sizes of client from the individual to the multinational to the
foreign law associate, we can tailor our service to meet your needs
through commercial, quick, value for money and clear advice.
We have produced a series of basic explanatory sheets on trade
mark and designs law which can be found:
The following are examples of our client successes:
- Assumption of responsibility of the trade mark portfolio of
Warner Music Group in the United Kingdom.
- Assumption of responsibility of the global trade mark portfolio
of Laura Ashley Limited, including associated
trade mark attorney services.
- Assumption of responsibility of the global trade mark portfolio
of N Brown Group plc, including the management of
brands such as Simply Be and JD Williams.
- Management of the global trade mark portfolios of
Standard Life plc and provision of associated
trade mark attorney services.
- Management of the trade mark portfolio of AXA UK
plc, including the management of brands such as PPP,
Denplan, Guardian Royal Exchange and Winterthur.
- Provision of advice on the global rebrand of a RSA
Insurance Group plc, including the management of a
worldwide trade mark filing programme and the protection of well
known brands such as More Th>n across the globe.
- Management of the entire IP portfolio's of Halfords
Limited, Silentnight Group Limited and SThree
plc on a worldwide basis and provision of trade mark
attorney services to the group.
- Provision of trade mark attorney services on a worldwide basis
to Nanjing Automotive (Group) Corporation in
relation to the MG brand, including the recordal of the global
assignment of this brand, amongst others.
- Filing trade mark applications on behalf of clients and clients
of Trade Mark Attorney practices from across the globe and in
particular from such practices based in the Australia, Canada,
China, France, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, Sweden, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and United States.