Edwin Coe Strengthens Trade Marks Offering

Edwin Coe is delighted to announce that Eric and Maggie Ramage and a team of trade mark attorneys and formalities staff from Alexander Ramage Associates (“ARA”), have joined its intellectual property team.

Established in 1989, ARA has been a leading firm of trade mark attorneys and litigators specialising in trade marks, domain names, designs and directly related rights. Their clients include one-man companies, small and medium sized enterprises and multinational corporations, and are based throughout the UK, as well as in the USA, Central America, Australia, and Europe.

Edwin Coe is a Top 200 commercial law firm based in Lincoln’s Inn, London. Founded in 1913, it has grown from its litigation origins to become a thriving and diversified practice providing a comprehensive range of legal services to meet the needs of a wide variety of businesses, individuals and organisations based throughout the UK and internationally.

Simon Miles, Head of Intellectual Property at Edwin Coe comments:

“This is an exciting time for our Intellectual Property (IP) group. Adding the team from Alexander Ramage Associates strengthens the trade mark attorney side of our practice significantly and Eric, Maggie, and their team bring with them a wealth of experience and practical know-how. Additionally, Eric is a trade mark attorney litigator and will continue to offer his clients dispute resolution advice supported by the Edwin Coe IP litigation team. Maggie, as a past President of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys and former Managing Partner at ARA, adds her undoubted national, community and international expertise to our existing trade marks and designs portfolio management practice.

We are able to offer a complete IP solution for our clients combining the complementary strengths of IP solicitors and trade mark attorneys, and where necessary Edwin Coe’s tax team.”

Eric Ramage, who was the Senior Partner of Alexander Ramage Associates and Head of Professional Affairs at ARA, states:

“Combining our expertise with Edwin Coe is the perfect fit for us. Simon, Nick Phillips and the team at Edwin Coe have an impressive track record in contentious and non-contentious IP advice and have acted in many well-known and reported cases over the years. We look forward to adding to this and bringing additional strength to Edwin Coe’s trade mark and design prosecution and enforcement practice.”

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