Our specialist group provides a full trade mark protection service including:

• searching to provide infringement clearance and pre-filing registrability advice

• filing and prosecution of trade mark applications

• prosecuting contentious procedures, such as Oppositions or Cancellations

• post-registration recordal procedures such as renewals, transfers and amendments

• watching services

• civil litigation

• working with Customs and Trading Standards Offices on criminal trade mark issues

• advising on the exploitation and acquisition of trade marks

• dealing with licensing, assignment and settlement negotiations

We represent clients at all stages of prosecution before the UK Trade Mark Registry, the European Community Trade Mark Office (OHIM) and at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for international trade marks via the Madrid Protocol.

With a global network of associate firms we also obtain trade mark protection and organise litigation in most territories around the world.

For further information please contact: Alan Venner or Edmund Harrison.