Angela Fox > Maucher Jenkins > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Maucher Jenkins
7th Floor, Artillery House
11-19 Artillery Row
LONDON
SW1P 1RT
England

Work Department

IP Litigation & Dispute Resolution | IP Strategy, Exploitation & Transactions

Position

Angela is a UK Registered Trade Mark Attorney, Solicitor (England & Wales, Ireland), Higher Courts Litigator and Advocate, Attorney-at-Law (New York).

Angela heads the firm’s UK Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. She specialises in intellectual property litigation and matters involving trade marks, copyright and domain names. Angela counsels clients on disputes, brand protection, strategy and enforcement. She has extensive experience in clearing and protecting trademarks and in handling domain name and company name disputes and matters relating to trademark infringement and passing off, including litigation, advocacy, opinion and advisory work. She is also an experienced negotiator in mediations and settlement discussions.

Angela also advises on IP-related commercial transactions and relationships, including assignments, licenses and non-disclosure agreements.

Angela is also an Irish solicitor and an attorney-at-law in the US, having been admitted to the bar of the state of New York.

She is author of Intellectual Property Enterprise Court: Practice & Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd Ed.), the leading guide on litigating in the IPEC.

Career

Trained at Clifford Chance. Qualified as a Trade Mark Attorney in 1998 and at the New York Bar in 2002. Qualified as a solicitor in 2003 and solicitor advocate in 2005.

Joined Maucher Jenkins (previously RGC Jenkins & Co.) in 2004 and became partner in 2012.

Languages

Spanish, German.

Memberships

Angela serves as a domain name panellist for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (“WIPO”) Arbitration and Mediation Center. She has served on the official users committees for the IP Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.

Education

Washington College, (1993 BA (Hons)); Oxford University, (1995 MSt); University of London, (2001 LLB (Hons)).

Lawyer Rankings

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys

Anglo-German firm Maucher Jenkins often works collaboratively with its German offices to handle national and European trade mark filings, and it also boasts an established presence in Switzerland and China. The team provides ‘sound and practical advice’ on the registration of new brands, clearances, and prosecuting trade mark applications, as well as representing clients in litigation and dispute resolution matters. Industries of strength for the group include pharmaceuticals and medical devices, cosmetics, food and beverages, financial services, and media and entertainment; Katie Cameron often engages with clients in the latter of these industries. Co-head Angela Fox is praised for her ‘great trademark portfolio management skills’ as a dual-qualified solicitor and trade mark attorney litigator, and Tanya Buckley also jointly leads the team with ‘a wealth of experience in handling different types of trade mark work’; her background in biotech enables her to advise pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech clients.