Trade Mark, Designs and Copyright
Trade mark, designs and copyright protection is critical to the creativity, innovation and investment that go into developing brands. Allen & Overy’s market-leading team helps today’s leading businesses to protect these significant company assets.
More than ever, the world’s top businesses need a strategic and coordinated global approach to Intellectual Property. Our pre-eminent global team has worked on some of the most complex, high-profile and often precedent-setting trade mark, designs and copyright cases of recent times.
Implementing and executing effective global dispute resolution strategies to defend brands is a key part of our expertise. We act for some of the world’s most valuable brands, devising litigation strategies that are effective at all levels of the relevant courts and tribunals.
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Warner Bros
in EU-wide trade mark infringement proceedings commenced in the Brussels Commercial Court, and in two sets of parallel invalidity proceedings before the EUIPO.
Nintendo
as their main adviser in France, on a day-to-day basis, on the enforcement of all aspects of its anti-piracy policy in France. Most notably, we advised on its efforts to prohibit the sale of devices designed to circumvent the technical measures protecting the Nintendo consoles, infringing their copyright and trade marks.
SC Johnson
the maker of well-known brands such as Mr Muscle, Autan, Glade, Raid and Off! on all aspects of its trade marks, product designs and advertising/unfair competition work across a number of European jurisdictions.
A global pharmaceutical company
on successful arguments for the registration of its trade mark for the distinctive shape of one of its products in the Czech Republic.
News & insights
Blog Post: 12 MAY 2021
The shape of things to come: the value of registered designs in protecting medtech products
As the digital revolution continues to sweep across healthcare, health tech manufacturers are increasingly aware of the need to protect the visual appearance of their products.
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Publications: 14 JULY 2020
Webinar: Beyond Covid-19: Implications for intellectual property
In the second and final webinar in our series, our IP team discusses the future global impact of Covid-19 coronavirus on IP from a transactional, litigation and regulatory perspective.
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Publications: 11 JUNE 2020
Webinar: The key impacts of Covid-19 coronavirus on Intellectual Property
In the first of a series of webinars, Allen & Overy’s IP team addresses the current impact of Covid-19 coronavirus on IP from a transactional, litigation and regulatory perspective.
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Publications: 27 APRIL 2020
Here we assess the difficulties the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic poses to brand owners involved in trade mark registry proceedings and trade mark litigation, what brand owners can do to mitigate the…
Read moreAwards and accolades
- Winner: Copyright & Design Firm of the Year – France, Managing IP EMEA Awards 2020
Recognition of our work
Allen & Overy is not just an able running mate to world-leading brands but a strategic pacesetter.
WTR 1000 International 2020
Allen & Overy was the first UK-based firm to open in Bratislava and now it is one of, if not the most specialised in intellectual property in Slovakia.
WTR 1000 2020
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