Practice areas

Our intellectual property (IP) practice provides domestic and international clients with the expertise to protect, exploit and litigate their IP rights.

We are renowned for our brands practice and represent a broad range of brand owning clients from many different industries including advertising, brewing, food and drink, IT, publishing, retailing, sports and television.  We pride ourselves on being able to provide a tailored service to advise them all.  Major IP clients include Anheuser Busch (brewers of Budweiser beer), D. C. Thomson & Company Limited (publishers of The Beano), Krispy Kreme, Pernod Ricard, Pret a Manger, Red Bull, Umbro and Virgin.

We also have long established relationships with leading members of the specialist IP bar, as well as both patent agents and trade mark agents.  Similarly, we often work closely with lawyers from the very best independent firms in other jurisdictions, where - as is often the case - an IP matter has international elements or jurisdictional issues.