The group at Carpmaels & Ransford LLP manages significant trade mark portfolios for its roster of clients, which features well-known names. Brand counselling and protection are also key elements of the team’s workload. Roger Lush leads the practice and has experience assisting clients in sectors from media and entertainment to healthcare and pharma, with the life cycle of trade mark matters, including advising on inception, protection, commercialisation, opposition, and enforcement issues, as well as litigation. Jonathan Day is a key name in brand protection enforcement and management, while Lara Elder has expertise in licensing disputes, anti-counterfeiting and enforcement strategy advisory work, and brand protection and management cases.
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Key clients
- Allergan
- AbbVie
- Bear Grylls Ventures LLP
- Penguin Random House
- Deere & Company
- KalVista Pharmaceuticals
- Diptyque
- Crosta & Mollica
- Supermac’s (Holdings) Limited
- Deep Research Labs
- Blue Prism
- Space NK
- JP Morgan Chase Bank
- Lost Boy Entertainment LLC
- Mereo BioPharma Group plc
- Carus Animal Health Ltd
- Monte Rose Therapeutics AG
Work highlights
Assisting Allergan/AbbVie (best known for BOTOX®) with all matters from brand counselling and clearance, and filing and prosecution, through to opposition/cancellation and enforcement/dispute resolution.
Assisting Bear Grylls Ventures on the expansion and defence of the Bear Grylls brand, including general counselling, portfolio management and prosecution of brand extension related filings pursuant to commercial partnerships and licence agreements.
Representing Penguin Random House to run the worldwide trade mark portfolios for both the Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit brands.
Practice head
Roger Lush
Other key lawyers
Jonathan Day; Lara Elder