Brands, trade marks and designs

Specialist IP protection for the face of your business

Your brand and trade marks are the public face of your business and encapsulate your reputation. Design rights tie in closely with brand protection and the two are often inseparable. Protecting trade marks and designs is essential to developing a successful brand, will strengthen your position in the market and add value to your business. This means that effective legal advice is critical for success.

Our team of experts will work with you to ensure that your intellectual property is protected from inception. We'll provide commercially focused solutions for brand management, exploitation and enforcement wherever you operate. We have a deep understanding of the international IP landscape and extensive experience in helping businesses manage their brands across borders.

‘Excellent service from a firm of lawyers who seem really committed to supporting the work of our organisation. Always very prompt, efficient and courteous and legal advice is always presented in plain English.’

Intellectual property client, Legal 500

How we can help you

We can provide you with all the brands, trade marks and designs support that your business needs, including:

• managing your brands portfolio
• conducting clearance and filing programmes for trade marks and designs
• developing customised IP strategies that align with your commercial objectives
• working with you through the creation process to ensure your design meets the criteria for registered protection
• proactively monitoring your trade marks and design rights to identify potential threats
• enforcing or defending your trade mark and design rights through the courts, intellectual property offices or alternative dispute resolution
• developing anti-counterfeiting strategies and working with customs authorities
• conducting IP investigations 
• exploiting your brands and designs to maximise revenue streams
• protecting company names and domain names
• acquiring or licensing a brand

Why choose Osborne Clarke for brands, trade marks and designs?

Ultimately, our success is measured by the results we achieve. We have a strong record of successfully enforcing intellectual property rights for major brands, resolving complex disputes and implementing strategies that help our clients achieve their objectives. You can depend on us to protect your products and your brand identity.

As well as our legal expertise, our clients also know us for our commercial acumen, swift action and pragmatic, cost-effective solutions. We are skilled in explaining complex legal concepts in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. With our support, you will feel confident to make the best decision for your business even in difficult situations.

‘The team is very responsive to client requests and has adapted its approach to billing, monitoring against budget and deliverable tracking to suit our needs. The team has used an innovative customised technology platform to deliver our needs.’

Trade marks, copyright and design client, Legal 500

Our brands, trade marks and designs lawyers

With lawyers in Europe, Asia and the US, our international team has extensive experience of delivering results for clients in all areas of brands, trade marks and designs. We act for famous brands, new brands and brands that are expanding into new markets. Our experts have particular strengths in the technology and telecoms, gaming, retail, and life sciences (including biotechnology and pharmaceutical) sectors.