Mr Niall Head-Rapson > McDaniels Law > Tyne & Wear, England > Lawyer Profile
McDaniels Law Offices
Suite 1.01, Northern Design Centre
Abbott’s Hill
Baltic Business Quarter, Gateshead
NE8 3DF
England
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Mr Niall Head-Rapson
Work Department
Commercial IP department.
Position
Niall is a consultant at McDaniels Law advising on all aspects of intellectual property. He advises businesses of all sizes from small businesses to major Plc’s. He has been advising on intellectual property matters since 1992. Niall trained and worked in the City and now consults in the North East. McDaniels Law are now ranked as a tier 1 firm by Chambers and is ranked in the Legal 500, which is an exceptional achievement for a firm of its size. He is a specialist in all aspects of intellectual property law, be it patents, copyright, designs, trade marks, confidential information or branding. The firm’s lawyers are also experts in ownership disputes, be it IP or the business that owns the IP.
Career
Trainee solicitor, and solicitor at Gouldens (Now Jones Day) 1992-1996; partner Martineau Johnson – April 2001-June 2002; partner then director at own firm McDaniel & Co from 2005.
Education
Kings College University of London (1988 BSc Hons); The Nottingham Trent University (CPE 1990-1991, LPC 1991-1992); Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (Diploma IP 1993-1995).
Lawyer Rankings
North > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)Boutique intellectual property firm McDaniels Law, based in Gateshead and Carlisle, handles the full spectrum of IP matters, regularly advising clients on the creation and ownership of IP rights, securing patents, trademarks and registered designs with particular strength in the furniture, textile, fashion and jewellery industries. The experienced team is adept in handling a myriad of multijurisdictional contentious and non-contentious matters. IP experts Niall Head-Rapson and Kelly Hudson jointly head up the group which also advises on registrability, oppositions, cancellation proceedings in the IPO, EUIPO and other IP offices. Carlisle-based director Adam Turley oversees mainly handles contentious matters before a range of courts.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property North > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
- Leading individuals North > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property