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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.
Retail
From Fashion & Luxury, Health & Beauty to Food & Drink, our Retail team has a deep understanding of the sector and represents some of the UK’s leading brands.
Our expertise is broad-based and over the years we have advised a wealth of different types of retailers, from boutique and speciality stores through to supermarkets, as well as traditional bricks and mortar retailers, mail-order and catalogue companies, omnichannel, on-line and mobile retailers. We operate across a vast number of territories, and a number of different technologies and tools at the heart of the retail industry such as in-store, online and mobile payments and store operations software solutions. Rather fittingly we have been known to indulge in a bit of retail therapy ourselves…
Some of the projects we have recently advised on include:
- Franchised and licensed use of retail store names in the middle east
- Clearance searches for new department store to be launched in the UK with own-brand products
- Due diligence to support the proposed acquisition of balsamic vinegar business with proposed brand extension by acquiring entity
- Anti-counterfeiting: recordal of rights of high end fashion brand with multiple customs authorities and managing destruction of seizures made of counterfeits seized
- Contentious design matter relating to the design of a clothes hanger
- Patent and design aspects of disposable food packaging
Our clients include:
- Jimmy Choo
- Paul Smith
- Primark
- Phase Eight and Whistles
- Orlebar Brown
- Radley
- Associated British Foods: with brands including Blue Dragon, Jordans, Kingsmill, Ovaltine , Ryvita, Silver Spoon, Sunblest, Twinings and Patak’s
- Estee Lauder
- Worldpay
- Close Brother Group
- Island Pacific
We have also worked with retail payment processors and retail finance providers.
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