With particular strength pertaining to trade marks, Ashfords LLP advises on the full gamut of IP concerns, ranging from copyright infringement to patent litigation and transactional matters. Carl Steele heads up the practice and has longstanding experience with clients stemming from the retail sector, particularly those trading in luxury goods. Praised for her ‘excellent and knowledgeable service’, Clare Jackman complements her trade mark expertise with an active copyright and transactional practice. Daniel Cahill handles brand protection and portfolio management matters for a client portfolio comprising both domestic and international companies.
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‘I find Ashfords as a firm to be totally approachable, friendly, customer orientated, pragmatic, and always available to help.'
'Every one of Ashfords' lawyers have an excellent attitude, unstinting customer care ethos, a genuine desire to help, always sensible and pragmatic.’
‘Carl Steele is responsive and tells you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.’
‘Clare Jackman provides an excellent and knowledgeable service.’
‘They are very responsive and always deliver quality services. This is much appreciated.'
'Clare Jackman is business oriented and perfectly knows the UK trademark practice. She always finds a satisfactory alternative solution, if the direction taken by the client is not the right one.’
‘Ashfords represents a quality IP practice.’
‘They are responsive, and provide extremely pragmatic advice.’
Key clients
- Fontaine Limited (owner of CREED Fragrances)
- The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited
- JW Anderson Limited
- Aardman Animations Limited
- Post Office Limited
- What3words
- Intact Financial Corporation (via Blake, Cassells & Graydon LLP – a Canadian law firm)
- Majestic Wine
- People Group Services Limited
- Naked Wines plc
Work highlights
- Acting for the Roald Dahl Story Company Limited in connection with a variety of matters including conducting trade mark clearance searches and filing and registering various trade marks globally.
- Acting for Fontaine Limited on ongoing strategy to protect the client’s brands of their key fragrances, as well as providing clearance searches of new brands to align with the client’s marketing campaigns and thereafter filing and prosecuting various trade mark applications.
- Continue to act for Woof Wear Limited as defendant in court proceedings for copyright infringement of various articles of equine goods.
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Clare Jackman
Practice head
Carl Steele
Other key lawyers
Daniel Cahill; Clare Jackman