When all other options have been exhausted, the need to resort to litigation arises. Our clients benefit from the fully integrated service we offer: the skills of our IP litigators complemented by the strategic trade mark management skills of the non-contentious trade mark team. There are no duplication costs involved, thus enabling us to assist our clients at a much reduced cost over the traditional trade mark agents and solicitors.

Examples of our recent experience include:

• Acting for the successful claimant in a ground-breaking litigation in the Court of Appeal which determined the status of trade mark classification system in the UK.
  
  
• Acting for Remington in its second landmark trade mark case against Philips' attempt to monopolise the market for three-headed rotary shavers. The judgement clarified the "technical result" exclusion for the purpose of the registrability of shapes as trade marks. It was the first time in the UK that the European Court of Justice ruling in previous action between the parties had been applied. 
  
  
• Acting for a number of global entertainment companies on character merchandising and anti-counterfeiting.

We also conduct multi-jurisdictional litigations whenever necessary.