PRACTICE AREAS
Trade Marks
PATENTING //
Practice Areas
The attorneys in the trade marks team share many years of experience in-house, as well as in private practice, and can therefore offer sound and cost effective commercial advice.
We act for clients ranging in size from SMEs and universities to large multinationals. We have particular experience in the fields of manufacturing; pharmaceuticals (prescription and OTC); medical equipment and devices; cosmetics & healthcare products; footwear and clothing; food and drink; household goods; building products; retail services; banking and finance; publishing and education.
Our trade mark services include:
- Brainstorming and trade mark creation
- Searches, and advice on the freedom to use and register marks
- Filing applications ( UK , Community Trade Marks, Madrid Protocol and foreign)
- Inter parties proceedings such as oppositions, revocations, invalidation actions
- Maintenance and renewals
- Watching services
- Advice on infringement, and commercially-minded assistance in resolving trade mark disputes
- Drafting and recording trade mark transactions such assignments and licences
- Strategic advice on the management of trade mark portfolios, including assistance on streamlining and budgeting
- Our specialist trade mark attorneys are Anne Lacaze and Natalie Brindle.
WHAT'S NEW
Helping untangle the Intellectual Property web.
We'll help you keep up to date with the latest IP news and laws.
EU passes new law on geographical indicatiors
On 26 March 2024, the European Council adopted a new regulation on geographical indicators (“GI”) for agricultural products, wines, and spirits. Geographical indicators, sometimes also known as “protected designations of origin” confer rights that are not dissimilar to ordinary trade mark rights in the name of a place or region as it related to and insamuch … Read More
by Mark SmithEU trade mark registrations no longer cover Jersey (and haven’t for quite some time)
For the uninitiated, Jersey (formally “The Bailiwick of Jersey”) is a self-governing, British Crown Dependency (located just off the coast of France) with its own parliament and laws. Trade mark holders have long been able to obtain Jersey-specific trade mark rights via extension (or “re-registration”) of an already existing UK trade mark right registered nationally … Read More
by Mark SmithUK Court of Appeal finds for M&S against Aldi in Registered Design Battle of the Gin Bottles
Marks & Spencer’s registered designs to “snow globe” gin bottles were held to be infringed by Aldi’s look-a-like products in court of appeal Case No: CA-2023-000521. In the assessment of the registered designs, the court inspected a physical example of the M&S product. The court found that the designers of the M&S Product had had … Read More
by Julia D'Arcy