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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
- Estee Lauder
- Primark
- Orlebar Brown
- Radley
- Associated British Foods: with brands including Blue Dragon, Jordans, Kingsmill, Ovaltine , Ryvita, Silver Spoon, Sunblest, Twinings and Patak’s
- Worldpay
- Close Brother Group
- Island Pacific
We have also worked with retail payment processors and retail finance providers.
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How do you win the battle against online trade mark infringement?
Retail team member Sarah Neil reviews the problem of online trade mark infringement and the options for combating third party copycats online You may have seen the recent story of Little Soap Co and its battle against a scammer who set up an Instagram account cloning the company’s genuine Instagram account in an effort to… Read more »
Red Bull takes infringement matter by the horns
In a recent High Court decision, Red Bull has successfully brought infringement proceedings against Big Horn following its offer of energy drinks for sale under a similar get up to the well-known Red Bull products. Retail team member Sarah Neil reports on the decision In a recent decision of the High Court, Red Bull has… Read more »
