Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
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Our attorneys can directly file applications for UK and German registered designs and EU Community registered designs on your behalf. We can also assist with filing applications in other countries.
If you have a product that attracts customers because of the way it looks, you should consider registering the design.
Our specialist attorneys can directly file applications for UK and German registered designs and EU Community registered designs on your behalf. We can also assist with filing applications in other countries.
Before you apply to register your design, we can arrange a search to assess either the novelty and individual character of the proposed design, or the risk of infringement of existing third party rights.
The EU Parliament has now approved reforms to EU design law, we set out below some of the key changes. What’s happening? Proposals to amend the law were suggested in November 2022. In December 2023, the provisional law was published and it was adopted by the European Parliament in March 2024. The new Directive… Read more »
As Trade Mark Attorneys, one of the questions we are asked almost daily basis is whether new marks are registrable. As UK IPO practice is forever evolving, it can be helpful to conduct regular reviews of the kinds of marks being refused by the UK IPO. In the latest instalment of our seasonal round-up, we… Read more »
