Brands & Trademarks

Our experienced team can help you protect and gain exclusive rights over the words, logos and designs associated with your brand. 

We manage UK and worldwide trade mark portfolios for a range of well-known brands, and for larger multi-brand companies as well as for innovative fast growth businesses with market creating offers. Clients include JW Anderson, The Roald Dahl Story Company, Aardman Animations (famous for “Wallace & Gromit”, “Chicken Run” and “Shaun the Sheep”), Majestic Wine, Naked Wines, Pancho Music Inc. (Michael Bublé’s music company) and What3words Limited.

Our team comprises of a mix of solicitors and Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys, with over 70 years' combined expertise and experience.  We are regularly recognised in the World Trademark Review 1000 publication, which identifies the world’s leading trade mark legal services providers.
We provide a 360-degree service, conducting all legal work relating to trade marks and brands. Such work includes (often on a global basis): clearing, filing, prosecuting, registering, renewing and maintaining, opposing, invalidating and enforcing (including via Court/legal proceedings), licensing and assigning trade marks. Also, drafting and negotiating co-existence agreements and merchandising agreements, clearing proposed advertising campaigns and operating TM watching services to identify third party conflicting trade marks.

Our clients instruct us because they know we will provide them with the best strategic direction and advice, not merely responding to their instructions.

Our experience includes:

Managing the worldwide and UK trade mark portfolios of many famous brands. This includes clearing, filing, prosecuting, registering, renewing, maintaining, opposing, invalidating, defending and enforcing numerous trade marks each year. Our clients include: Creed Fragrances, Aardman Animations,  BlackRock, The Roald Dahl Story Company, JW Anderson, Majestic Wine, The Brand Architekts and What3words