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Howard Kennedy LLP Offices

Howard Kennedy LLP
NO.1 LONDON BRIDGE
LONDON
SE1 9BG
England
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Colin Sawdy

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IP & Commercial

Position

Colin Sawdy is an intellectual property solicitor specialising in trade marks, copyright and designs. He is a partner and heads Howard Kennedy’s Trade Marks practice.

Colin’s practice focuses on international trade mark and design clearance, prosecution and portfolio management. He manages the filing and defence of opposition, revocation and invalidity actions, as well as, negotiates settlements and coexistence agreements. Colin regularly enforces clients’ rights by way of dispute resolution and coordinating litigation in the UK and abroad. He is experienced in anti-counterfeiting matters and advises on, as well as, drafts intellectual property commercial agreements.

Colin assists clients with copyright and domain name matters, ranging from securing the protection of such rights through to their commercialisation and enforcement against infringing third parties.

He routinely advises clients in both written and spoken Japanese on a wide range of intellectual property matters, and regularly gives presentations in Japanese at industry events. He speaks, reads and writes Japanese fluently, having majored in Japanese language and culture as an undergraduate at university. He lived in Japan for over four years.

As a dual-qualified UK solicitor and US attorney at law, Colin provides strategic advice to clients seeking to protect intellectual property rights internationally. He is licensed to practise in the state of Illinois, having worked in the IP departments of international law firms in Chicago for a number of years.

Colin advises clients across a wide range of industries including computer games, financial services, technology, entertainment, media, character merchandising, cosmetics, fashion, art, sport, consumer electronics, household products, online retail, leisure and pharmaceuticals.

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London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design

The ‘brilliant’ Howard Kennedy LLP maintains a particularly strong practice in the arts space, advising across a litany of IP issues that include trade mark licensing, IP acquisitions, and contentious disputes, often with a cross-border element. Steering the practice is Robert Lands, whose practice is comprised of an array of trade mark and copyright mandates. Colin Sawdy, who heads up the firm’s trade mark offering, counts technology, media, and consumer electronic companies in his client roster.

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media

Broadcasting and publishing matters are a key pillar of the media and entertainment practice at Howard Kennedy LLP, which is well positioned to handle an array of mandates – from contractual issues to IP law and disputes – on behalf of magazines, newspapers, book publishers and authors. Practice head Mark Stephens CBE, a specialist in international comparative media law, leads on disputes. Robert Lands assists publishing and broadcasting clients with IP matters, while Colin Sawdy focuses on copyright and design issues. With extensive experience in litigation involving freedom of speech and the media, Elizabeth Morley handles defence strategies for media organisations, journalists, bloggers and publications. Matthew Gill has left to Good Law Practice.

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