A registered trade mark gives you an exclusive right to use a name, logo or other sign for the goods and services it covers. It lets you stop competitors using something confusingly similar, and it is an asset that can be licensed or sold.
Without registration you are left relying on the law of passing off, which requires you to prove your reputation, prove misrepresentation and prove damage. That is a far harder and more expensive position from which to start.
A clearance search comes first. Filing an application for a mark that conflicts with an earlier registration wastes the fee and, worse, can draw the attention of a rights holder who had not previously noticed you.
We search the UK register and the relevant international registers, and give you a straight view on whether the mark is likely to survive examination and opposition.
Clearance searching, class selection and the application itself, handled end to end.
Responses to objections and oppositions, and action against infringers.
Advice on protecting the same mark in other markets you trade into.
London, United Kingdom
