Brands

We can advise you on:

• Clearing brands for use and registration
• Global trade mark, domain name and design registration
• Trade mark, domain name and design portfolio management
• Brand audits
• Brand watching services
• Brand misuse (monitoring, policing and enforcement strategies, advice in relation to disputes, anti-counterfeiting and piracy, litigation and other means of resolving conflicts, and co-existence agreements)
• Challenging other people’s brands (oppositions and invalidity proceedings)
• Brand use (brand guidelines, and policies and procedures)
• Brand licensing, franchising, merchandising, sponsorship, product placement and other agreements, and related advice
• The acquisition and disposal of brands and brand-driven businesses
• The challenges to brands in the digital age (brand extension and new channels of exploitation)
• Advertising and marketing your brand.

Orange

We have advised Orange on a number of brand related disputes and licensing issues.

Hat Trick

We advise Hat Trick Productions on trade mark registration and related matters for their brands.

Sir Terry Pratchett

We represent the estate of best-selling ‘Discworld’ author Sir Terry Pratchett in relation to trade marks and enforcement.

Oxford University Press

We have advised OUP on a number of trade mark and domain name related disputes.