Lovells provides integrated trade mark management services, advice on the availability of trade marks and filing strategies. We also offer a comprehensive “one stop” service to secure trade mark registrations in single jurisdictions or around the world including Community Trade Marks and registrations under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol.
Our internationally staffed Alicante office - dealing primarily with Community Trade Marks and Designs - is the largest focused Community Trade Mark practice of any international law firm.
Our Hong Kong office acts as regional centre for trade mark and brand management matters in East Asia.
London Trade Marks Filing Practice
Our services include providing advice on trade mark strategies, trade mark searching, filing, prosecution and portfolio management.
What we can do for you:
• advise on the development and implementation of an effective trade mark strategy;
• file trade mark applications in the UK and file Community trade mark applications, International registrations (under the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol) and national trade mark applications in all the major European jurisdictions and in South East Asia through our offices;
• handle national applications elsewhere in the world through our network of external trade mark specialists;
• defend applications against objections from the various trade mark authorities relating to their registrability;
• defend applications against third party objections in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the relevant authorities and courts in the UK and abroad;
• negotiate and conclude co-existence and licence agreements;
• handle the assignment of trade marks, including the recordal thereof with the various trade mark authorities;
• notify of and deal with trade mark renewals.