The trade marks team provides the following services to both UK and overseas clients:

• Trade mark searches
• Strategic filing advice
• File and prosecute UK, Community trade mark and Madrid Protocol applications
• Trade mark proceedings (such as oppositions, revocations and appeals) before the UK Trade Marks Registry and the Community trade mark office
• IP actions before the UK Courts
• IP dispute settlement negotiation and mediation services
• IP portfolio management
• IP licensing and assignments
• Parallel imports
• Transactional advice, including due diligence
• Anti-counterfeiting and trading standards/customs liaison

Registered design searches and applications

We liaise with our established network of trusted international contacts to deliver trade mark services outside the UK. We also project manage overseas trade mark proceedings and litigation for our clients