Every day we help businesses around the world protect, enforce, manage and leverage the ideas and intangible assets that give them their competitive edge. We help all types of businesses, from start-ups and scale-ups to established companies and their investors.
Our in-house trade mark and design filing practice specialises in managing trade mark and design portfolios across more than 160 jurisdictions, ensuring comprehensive protection for our clients' brands and designs on a global scale.
Our IP specialists are focused on industry trends, sector knowledge and legal developments. We proactively align ourselves with our clients' industries to gain a deep understanding and provide effective support.
Our IP strategy advice is bespoke to every business we work with. Whether you're a start-up or a globally established investor backed company, we work to understand your business so that we can be the best custodians of your creative and innovative assets.
We ensure your IP has a competitive advantage in its market, and we achieve this through our specialist expertise and jurisdictions across our trade mark attorneys and solicitors, always led by the bespoke brand strategy and never encouraging legal spend unless it aligns with that strategy. Our traditional IP services include trade mark and design filing and prosecution, support with commercial contracts, corporate due diligence, and contentious advisory work (including litigation in a variety of specialist forums). In addition, we also offer new and thoughtful options to protect key intangible assets and their value, and will create a suitable approach for any unusual projects (e.g. restructuring; tax efficiencies) a company may require help with.
Regardless of the specific work being done, we never operate in a silo, and we recognise that the best-quality comprehensive IP management requires a joined-up approach. We are instrumental in helping our clients’ commercial teams understand their IP via training sessions, regular review meetings, and playbooks.
We began advising Stella McCartney in 2024. At the time, the trade mark portfolio was so large it caused substantial costs for our client.
We provided the brand with a focused strategy that repurposed funds on protection of new designs and brand assets.
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We created a one-of-a-kind protection for a one-of-a-kind product. Helping Dryrobe to secure 40+ trade marks and 100 designs secured across 20 territories.
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We advised Diageo on the purchase of the premium rum brand DON PAPA. IP, particularly in the brand, was a key part of this transaction and the value of the deal.
Advised our client from the beginning of their launch journey, including brand clearance, product clearance, copy clearance, copyright clearance and overall risk management.
We represented Deanta UK Limited, a manufacturer of premium internal doors, in its defence of a registered and unregistered design and copyright dispute with Leeds Plywood & Doors Limited, in the Intellectual Property & Enterprise Court. The case concerned various intellectual property rights which were alleged to subsist in the design of an acoustic panelled internal door. It also involved several interim applications relating to disclosure and the admissibility of witness statements.
Advised our client on the launch of new footwear product. We carried out trade mark clearance searches on the proposed brand name, tag-lines and slogans and supporting their monthly marketing communications.
