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Justine Flockhart
Work Department
Intellectual Property and Trade Marks
Position
A strategic adviser to brand owners, Justine is a Partner at Hansel Henson specialising in advising on intellectual property creation, protection and exploitation. She also leads the firm’s trade mark portfolio practice.
Justine believes that protection and commercialisation of IP is key to any business. She is passionate about helping her clients to protect against copycats and those who wrongly assert rights to stifle competition and innovation. Justine advises on pre-action correspondence, settlement negotiations and acts on litigation in the Hight Court and IPEC.
She advises clients on what IP rights they have, and uses her expertise to protect these rights, and draft agreements that commercialise these rights.
With a thriving trade mark portfolio practice, she is experienced in trade mark filing, prosecution, portfolio maintenance, management both nationally and internationally, as well as oppositions and cancellations and the defence of such actions at the UKIPO.
Her clients come from a wide variety of sectors including: the fashion, media, entertainment and creative industries.
Career
Trained at Memery Crystal; qualifying in 2008.
Commercial Executive at the BBC in 2009.
Hansel Henson since 2009, promoted to Partner in 2016.
Memberships
CITMA
Education
Millfield School
Cardiff University (Bsc Hons, Zoology).
BPP Law School (PgDL, Law Conversion Course)
BPP Law School (LPC)
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
The ‘diligent and personable’ team at Hansel Henson is trusted by entrepreneur-led businesses, ranging from start-ups to major corporations, with IP disputes and trade mark portfolio management, among other matters. David Hansel co-leads the practice, with demonstrable experience in convergent technologies, notably copyright issues in relation to internet-based consumer applications and AI. Fellow co-lead Justine Flockhart has a wealth of experience in the trade mark sphere. Thomas Henson is particularly active in the digital media sector, while associate Will Holmes assists clients in thd publishing, gaming and consumer goods sectors on various copyright, trade mark and registered design disputes.