Brand and Intellectual Property

Clarke Willmott's Intellectual Property team regularly assists retailers with protecting, enforcing and exploiting their intellectual property rights namely trade marks, know-how, designs, patents, confidential information and copyright.

All companies and businesses, whether small or large, will trade under a brand or have ideas or products that require protection in order to prevent third parties from copying them. Obtaining protection also enables those companies and businesses to realise the full commercial benefit of their intellectual property assets.

We are a full service intellectual property practice providing the following:

• Protection - trade mark and design portfolio management including registering national and international trade marks and designs
• Enforcement - enforcing all intellectual property rights and developing effective anti-counterfeiting and parallel import strategies
• Exploitation - drafting and negotiating licences, assignments, distribution agreements, franchise agreements and agency agreements

Our expert lawyers will guide you through the process every step of the way. Best of all you can be confident that you can control costs and can always work within an agreed budget.

Contact: Paul Cox, Roy Crozier