Intellectual property
Brands and trade marks.
Your most valuable assets are the ones you cannot hold. We create them, protect them, and when someone tests them, we find out who, and we deal with it. Quietly and properly.
What we handle
From the first filing to the last resort.
Trade marks
Clearance, filing and portfolio strategy across the markets that matter to you.
More on this ›Copycats and counterfeits
Mapping the network, tracing to source, and shutting it down at scale.
More on this ›Design rights
Registered designs and the unregistered rights behind them, for the product copied in shape rather than in name.
More on this ›Infringer identification
Putting a real name and address to an anonymous seller, lawfully.
More on this ›Disputes and oppositions
Defending and challenging rights, from oppositions to full proceedings.
More on this ›Brand enforcement
Takedowns at scale, domain recovery, and stopping impersonation fast. Enforcement of the works themselves sits under content.
More on this ›Strategy and portfolio
Building a portfolio that holds value and works as an asset, not just paper.
More on this ›Also under intellectual propertyContent and copyrightPatents
Music, media and sport
Brands in music, media and sport
An artist, a club and a production are brands as well as rights holders. The name on the merchandise and the likeness on the campaign are brand problems, and they sit here.
When people call us about this.
The part most firms cannot do.
Filing is the easy part. The hard part is finding who is really behind an infringement, gathering evidence that stands up, and resolving it without it ever becoming a story. That is the work we are known for.
See the discreet specialist work ›Insights
Reading on brands, trade marks and copying
- A competitor too close to your brand: reading it before reacting to it
- Cease and desist letters: written for the file, not for the recipient
- Choosing a brand name: what markets well and what registers well
- Counterfeits of your product: the first moves that matter
- Design rights: what a trade mark alone will not catch
- Expanding the brand: rights do not travel with the business
- Licensing your brand: what you are really lending is control
- Registering a trade mark: the form is not the work
- Someone has taken a domain in your name
- Trade mark oppositions: the argument is narrower than it looks