Intellectual Property
Registration, licensing and enforcement of trademarks, copyright, designs and confidential information.
Detailed overview
Intellectual property is only as good as the record behind it. We handle clearance and registration properly at the outset — searches, classification, prosecution — because a defective filing is discovered at exactly the moment it matters most.
For clients whose value sits in their brand, content or technology, we build and maintain portfolios, run watch and renewal programmes, and structure the licences and assignments that turn rights into revenue.
Enforcement runs from cease-and-desist through takedowns, customs recordal, interim injunctions and infringement proceedings — and, equally often, defending clients who have been accused wrongly.
- Trademark clearance, filing, prosecution and opposition
- Copyright protection, assignment and licensing
- Industrial design and patent filing coordination
- Trade secrets and confidential-information protection
- Technology transfer, licensing and franchising agreements
- Infringement actions and interim injunctions
- Online takedowns, domain disputes and counterfeit enforcement
- IP due diligence in transactions
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
You are launching a brand and need to know the name is actually available.
Someone is using your mark, content or product design without permission.
You are licensing technology or content and the terms need to hold.
An investor's diligence has flagged gaps in your IP ownership chain.
The attorneys handling intellectual property.
Recovering trademark rights filed by an overseas distributor
- The challenge
- The registrations were valid on their face. The distribution agreement was silent on IP ownership, and in several of the affected markets the limitation period for bad-faith challenge was close to expiring.
- The outcome
- Registrations were cancelled or assigned back in nine of the eleven markets over twenty-two months. The remaining two were resolved by negotiated assignment as part of the distribution wind-down.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“Zaid rebuilt our trademark position across eleven markets after we discovered our distributor had filed in their own name. It was methodical, unhurried work and we got everything back.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
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Speak to the intellectual property team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.