Designs and Related Rights and Database Rights

We have considerable experience in advising clients in relation to protecting and enforcing rights in designs, both registered and unregistered, and in advising on rights in databases under copyright and sui generis database right.
Simon Miles has sat on the Chartered Institute of Trade Marks Attorney’s Law and Practice Committee and the Copyright and Designs Working Group.
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Examples of our work include:
Filing UK and Community registered designs for clients.
Utilising our international network of trusted associates to file design patent applications in other jurisdictions.
Advising clients on their worldwide design filing programmes and managing design portfolios.
Advising a motor vehicle parts supplier on a registered community design infringement action in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”).
Defending a client in IPEC on the alleged infringement of design right in a cycle rack.
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Our Team
Simon Miles
Nick Phillips
Maggie Ramage
Claire Lehr
Karen Lee
Dennis Lee
Lakmal Walawage
Selina Clifford
legal director
Christopher Pollard
barrister – legal director
Kenny Cheung
Eleanor Showering
Mark Dainty
formalities coordinator
Jane Purchase
formalities coordinator
Hannah Simpson
Lauren Barlow
Ruby Clarke
Timi Kuye
trainee solicitor
Marelyn Perez-Millan