Trademarks registration (trade marks and brands) full service solicitors

Trademark registration (trade marks) covering the United Kingdom (UK), Europe (EU), United States (US) and worldwide, trademarks infringement litigation, passing off, unfair competition, anti-counterfeiting, licensing, franchising, buying and selling brands. 

Trade marks: Brand identity can be crucial to success in the marketplace. Clients and international correspondent firms ask our solicitors to handle on their behalf:

• applications for trade mark registration in the United Kingdom alone, in the EU member states ("community trade mark applications") and multi-jurisdictional "international" applications
• oppositions to applications for trade mark registration
• renewals of trade mark registrations
• devising and policing international trade mark protection programs
• transferring title to registered trade marks by assignments
• claims for injunctions and damages for infringement of registered trade mark and passing off proceedings
• proceedings for the revocation of registered trade marks and challenges to validity
• negotiating and documenting trade mark licences and franchising arrangements
• securing and transferring domain names 
• devising and policing domain name clean-up programs

Solicitors here can supply the ability, precision and energy which companies, businesspeople and correspondent firms need in a competitive world marketplace to manage their intellectual property rights successfully, including in relation to:

• computer software 
• confidential information
• copyrights
• database rights
• defamation and trade libel 
• designs (registered and unregistered)
• employee obligations
• EU treaty regulations
• free trade
• information technology
• internet
• joint ventures
• know-how and show-how
• licensing and franchising
• litigation, arbitration, mediation
• media and publishing
• patents (licensing, transfer and litigation)
• passing off
• technology transfer
• trade marks
• unfair competition