Cleveland

Company Profile

Cleveland work with leaders and innovators, helping them turn their ideas into strategic business advantage.  We go beyond basic technical and legal advice, and explore your commercial IP needs and how to meet them.  Operating as a seamless extension of your business, Cleveland work with you to realise the commercial opportunities that exist in the ideas you generate. 

As you would expect, all of our attorneys have a good understanding of IP law and practice. Sharp analysis, technical knowledge and depth of experience are part of what we are. However, we believe that a commercial understanding is just as important and our attorneys all have insight into our clients’ businesses and how these shape their IP needs.

Our Services

Cleveland provides a broad range of services tailored to clients' individual needs. Its trade mark and design services include:-

Trade Marks

• Advising on trade mark selection
• Clearance searches
• Filing and prosecuting UK and Community trade mark applications
• Filing and prosecuting International trade mark applications
• Filing and prosecuting trade mark applications worldwide, via a network of foreign attorneys
• Dealing with objections raised by trade mark offices and oppositions raised by third parties
• Managing trade mark portfolios
• Conducting watching services
• Filing oppositions against third parties' trade mark applications
• Filing cancellation and revocation actions against third parties' trade mark registrations
• Filing appeals
• Providing opinions on the validity of trade mark rights
• Providing advice and opinions on trade mark infringement and passing off
• Providing advice on domain name issues
• Providing advice and representing in mediation and other ADRP
• Drafting settlement an co-existence agreements
• Providing advice on trade mark aspects of mergers and acquisitions
• Due diligence
• Drafting assignment and licence agreements
• Recording assignments, licences and debentures

Designs

• Advising on registered and unregistered design protection
• Filing UK and Community design applications
• Filing international design applications
• Filing design applications worldwide, via a network of foreign associates
• Dealing with objections raised by intellectual property offices
• Managing design portfolios
• Prosecuting and defending cancellation actions
• Filing appeals
• Providing opinions on the validity of registered and unregistered designs
• Advising on the infringement of registered and unregistered designs
• Advising on the overlap between designs and trade marks, patents and/or copyright
• Due diligence

Renewals and other services

• Full-service renewal of trade marks and designs in all countries
• Intellectual property audits
• Due diligence advice
• Preparation and recordal of IP transactions in the UK and worldwide

Contacts

Trade Marks

Alan Bernard (MITMA)
Jonathan Clegg (FITMA)
Lorna Hobbs (MITMA)
Imogen Wiseman (FITMA)
Peter Houlihan (MITMA)
Yasmine Hashim (MITMA)
Joanna Larkey (MITMA)
Louise Westbury (MITMA)
Sarah Cannon (MITMA)
Rebecca Silva (MITMA)
Anna Blackburn (MITMA)
Andrew Clemson (MITMA)

Designs

Imogen Wiseman (FITMA)
Yasmine Hashim (MITMA)
Sarah Cannon (MITMA)

*CIPA = Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

London:

Cleveland
40 - 43 Chancery Lane
London
WC24 1JQ

Tel: 020 7405 5875
Fax: 020 7831 0749
mail@cleveland-ip.com

Reading:

Cleveland
10-14 Duke Street
Reading
RG1 4RU

Tel: 0118 952 0910
Fax: 0118 956 7186
mail@cleveland-ip.com

Website

www.cleveland-ip.com