trademarks
Our team handles UK and Community trade marks and registered
design applications, oppositions and revocation applications, as
well as managing trademark portfolios and advising on brand
strategy.
A brand is a major asset of any business and can help achieve
competitive advantage. We understand the importance of
brand strategy for all businesses and can assist with this.
Our range of services includes:
- pre-filing advice
- clearance, including trademark searches
- brand strategy advice
- filing and registration
- oppositions
- revocations and cancellations
- trademark licensing
- infringement, enforcement and dispute resolution
- domain name advice and dispute resolution
- assignments and title transfer
- competitior analysis and investigations of use
registered design
Some but not all designs are capable of protection through
registration, either in the UK only or across the European
Community.
- To be eligible for registration a design must be new and
original, not purely functional, and have aesthetic qualities.
The main advantage of a registered design over an unregistered
design is that an unregistered design can be used only to protect
against copying, whilst a registered design provides a monopoly
right regardless of whether an infringer came up with their design
independently with no copying.
The registration procedure is relatively quick and cheap.
We are able to advise on registrability of designs, deal with
registration, exploitation and protection of your rights.
See our useful links for details on UK Intellectual
Property Office and OHIM.
