We are one of the largest IP groups in Europe and Asia, providing a full range of legal services relating to the protection and exploitation of trade marks and designs lawyers.
Acting for many high-profile domestic and international clients, our lawyers have in-depth and multijurisdictional expertise in the resolution of trade mark and design right disputes.
We have leading practitioners throughout each of our international jurisdictions, our trade mark and design practice offers a wide range of services, which includes everything from trade mark portfolio management strategies, anti-counterfeiting campaigns and brand policing, trade mark and domain name disputes and oppositions, to advisory and transactional work, which include agreements for the creation of and licensing of designs, design aspects of distribution agreements and licences.
We work with leading European trade mark attorneys for filing, prosecution and other registration issues and Bird & Bird’s Hong Kong office provides a full-service Asian trade mark practice including registration of Hong Kong trade marks.
Our clients are drawn from all sectors, although we are particularly strong in communications, IT, e-commerce, life sciences, media and sport. Through this, we have developed in-depth sector knowledge to complement our unrivalled legal expertise.
Heads of Group: Morag Macdonald & Christian Harmsen