Lovells has trade mark specialists in Alicante, Amsterdam, Beijing, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. We provide the full range of brand protection and brand management services including:
- trade mark litigation on both a national and multi-national level;
- effective brand protection by developing and implementing opposition and cancellation strategies
- arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
- anti-counterfeiting work including close co-operation with customs authorities monitoring imports and exports
- preventing grey market imports
- advising on protection of brands from misuse on the internet through cybersquatting, hyperlinking, typo piracy, metatags and framing
- commercial transactions involving trade marks including acquisitions, licensing, merchandising, franchising, joint ventures, co-existence and securitisation
- trade mark licensing and merchandising programmes
- competition (anti-trust) issues involving trade marks
- all aspects of trade mark portfolio management
- trade mark clearance and registration strategies
- fully integrated European advice on all Community Trade Mark and Madrid Agreement and Protocol issues
- prevention of trade mark hijacking in China and recovery of trade marks.