Clayton Utz' dedicated trade marks group provides a comprehensive service to major national and international corporations and government departments.
As your trade mark portfolio expands, you will spend more time in policing deadlines, preparing necessary forms and responding to letters from the Trade Marks Office. We help our clients manage their brand portfolios by offering an efficient, centralised system for providing instructions and receiving advice regarding trade mark matters, using sophisticated trade-marks database software to monitor deadlines and police our clients' entire catalogue.
Our deep experience in trade mark law includes anti-counterfeiting, contract law, litigation and registration procedures, allowing us, to help you through all aspects of trade mark protection, from availability searches through to infringement litigation.
Our professional, co-ordinated, user-friendly solution is tailored to suit your needs, and includes:
- Conducting prompt and thorough identical mark and full availability searches
- Preparing, filing and prosecuting trade mark applications in Australia and overseas
- Providing advice and acting on your behalf in relation to oppositions and removal actions
- Preparing and registering assignments or changes in ownership
- Developing defence strategies and prosecuting infringement proceedings
- Advising on your internal IP protection policies and procedures
- Providing advice on licensing and commercialisation of trade marks and other IP
- Advising on potential trade mark infringement and acting in relevant court proceedings.
