From prestigious brands with renowned trade marks to individuals, start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, we help our clients to harness and protect the value of their brands and intellectual property rights globally.
Our experienced and highly acclaimed team of intellectual property portfolio protection specialists, including UK and Irish qualified lawyers, UK and European trade mark attorneys, Irish trade mark agents, and Chartered trade mark paralegals, offers a dynamic intellectual property service.
A number of our team have worked in-house, providing a unique understanding of our clients’ needs and the value of our clients’ brands and IP. Our approach is truly collaborative, providing agile, innovative and bespoke services tailored to each client, to provide the most pragmatic, commercial advice to protect their global assets.
As an integral part of the wider intellectual property team, we are able to support clients across the full life-cycle of their intellectual property. We have expertise across all aspects of intellectual property portfolio protection, from creation to clearance, protection, management, enforcement and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Areas of focus
Our intellectual property portfolio protection team is dedicated to helping identify and protect your intellectual property rights and advising you on how to maximise their value to your business.
- Global strategic advice on intellectual property protection.
- Performing clearance searches to screen new brands for use and registration worldwide.
- Registration of trade marks and designs in the UK, Ireland, EU and internationally, including dealing with objections from local Offices.
- Portfolio management including managing global IP portfolios.
- Intellectual property disputes, such as trade mark opposition and cancellation proceedings at the UK, Irish and EU Intellectual Property Offices and at all stages of appeal, as well as negotiating commercial settlements.
- Conducting portfolio audits and intellectual property ‘health checks’ to help businesses identify and manage their assets.
- Conducting IP due diligence exercises.
- Trade mark, company name and domain name watching services.
We also regularly write and publish updates and articles on key intellectual property issues that may be of interest to many businesses. We are the sole UK contributor to World Trademark Review Weekly and we have our own newsletter, Concept, that is sent out to subscribers on a quarterly basis. If you are interested in receiving Concept, please go to our subscriptions form.