Non-contentious intellectual property (IP)

Innovation offers the competitive edge for your business to prosper. But to ensure your business remains competitive, it is vital to set up the right mechanisms to protect your intellectual property (IP).

Napthens provides practical, commercial advice on protecting all of your IP assets, from initial registration to monitoring and even litigation.

Trade Mark Registrations

Trade marks are possibly your most valuable business asset. They protect the reputation you have built in your company or product names and securing registration for these is vital to ensure you can stop copycats taking advantage of your goodwill and reputation. Obtaining a trade mark registration also helps to ensure you can use the name you want to.  We can guide you through the process to ensuring you are getting protection for the right marks in respect of the right goods and services, including in overseas jurisdictions.

Clearance Searches

Before launching a new brand, product or service, it’s essential to check that your chosen name or logo is clear to use. We commission trade mark clearance searches and provide tailored legal advice on the results.

Trade Mark Watching Service

To help safeguard your existing portfolio, we also offer trade mark watching services to monitor for potentially conflicting applications. We’ll review any alerts and advise on appropriate steps to protect your brand if an issue arises.

Design Registrations

Designs protect how things look. Once your product idea is formulated, our team advises on protecting designs through both UK and overseas design registrations. We can guide you through the process of identifying what elements are registrable, preparing and filing applications and coordinating protection in foreign territories. By securing registered designs, you gain a stronger position against copycats and ensure that commercial value in your products is retained.

IP Audits

An IP audit is an effective way to identify and assess the intellectual property within your business. We review your existing assets to ensure they are properly protected and owned by the right entity in the right jurisdictions. Following the audit, we provide practical recommendations to fill any gaps and align your IP protection with your commercial strategy. This is a fantastic way of kicking off the relationship and puts your assets in a strong position to monitor market changes and raise enforcement against any infringement as soon as they occur.

Get in Touch

Use our contact form to speak with an expert, or submit your trade mark registration idea here.

Related Services

For intellectual property disputes, Napthens’ has a 100% dedicated contentious IP team of solicitors on hand. For information on protecting against and enforcing the infringement of trade marks, copyright, designs or patents, please visit our Intellectual Property Litigation page.