Trade mark services for
in-house counsel
Lawrie will manage your trade marks and safeguard your brands.
Helping you to build and protect your brand assets.
Do you need a trade mark specialist to complement your in-house legal expertise?
Your great brands underpin the success of your business. It is therefore important that your trade mark rights are strategically managed to maximise your return on investment.
We know you are busy managing your company’s legal matters and that you need to know that the management of your IP portfolio is in safe hands. You need the right partners on board, providing specialist trade mark knowledge and expertise to enable you to make strategic IP decisions quickly and easily.
Lawrie can help you with:
- Searching, watching and freedom to operate
- Trade mark filing and prosecution
- Trade mark renewals and maintenance
- Recordals and ownership advice
- Disputes and contentious trade mark matters
- Opposition, invalidity and revocation matters
- Brand enforcement
- Online brand protection
You need to be able to rely on your private practice partner to have your back
Crowded markets, globalisation and eCommerce are all contributing to the complexity of protecting and enforcing your brand assets. Therefore, working with the right external trade mark attorneys to handle your organisation’s IP takes work off your desk, frees up your time and makes it easier for you and your business to make decisions, ultimately contributing to the growth and success of the business.
We understand the need to have a reliable team of experts delivering results. At Lawrie we pride ourselves in caring for your IP, the same way that you do.
We know that running a large trade mark and brand portfolio to maximise its benefit to a business can be difficult. But we also know that – when managed strategically – it can completely transform the success of your business. Your business deserves to reach new heights.
Our mission is simple – to be the easiest intellectual property team to work with and to make IP a pain-free experience. We will clearly set out the best way to secure the outcome needed and will provide clear costs and carefully considered advice.
You can rely on us to produce results and to provide clear guidance that will allow you to make decisions quickly and easily.
Your team for IP
We’re an easy to work with team of trade mark attorneys, who care. We combine our extensive knowledge and decades of experience with a friendly and practical approach.
We will act as your virtual IP team with a range of expertise that will complement yours.
We’ve dedicated our business to guiding in-house teams just like yours, and we know what it takes to drive success. We get it.
We can help you create a better tomorrow by caring for your ideas today.
Testimonials
What our clients say about us:
"Lawrie has been instrumental to our growth ambitions and commercial plans. Their chemistry and life sciences expertise ensured we obtained the patent protection we needed to secure investment, enabling us to continue making a real difference in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer."
Christophe Portal, Edinburgh Molecular Imaging
Chief Scientific Officer
"We have invested heavily to establish the SPEY brand so ensuring our trade mark is protected is important to us. Moving to Lawrie was one of the best business decisions we have made. They have spent time understanding our needs and it is reassuring that our IP portfolio is being managed so carefully."
Patricia Dillon, Speyside Distillers
Managing Director
"We make over 2000 products and reach 50 countries around the world. With Lawrie’s trusted advice we have a clear understanding of the value of our innovations and the impact our IP has on the success of the business."
Martin Jones, Vango – AMG Group
Product Director
"Lawrie and Argent have been working together for over 10 years. They have aided Argent to write and maintain several patents throughout the world. They continue to work closely with us, providing a variety of services which assists and protects our core innovation strategy to valorise wastes and reduce the world’s carbon footprint, helping us to remain focussed on leading research and technical advances."
Mike Scott, Argent Energy
Chief Technical Officer
"We work with Lawrie to protect and enforce our clients’ IP rights in Europe and the UK. I am always confident that we can seamlessly work together to provide my Chinese and Hong Kong clients with a value add IP service."
Timothy Letters, Letters & Thoo Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
Principal
"We have relied on Lawrie to manage our new brand asset, protect us for the future and help set us up for further success."
Paul Crawford
Founder, Panther M*lk
"Lawrie make it easy for my clients to obtain the patents they need for HMRC’s Patent Box scheme to reduce Corporation Tax. Their expertise at "invention spotting" in our client’s R&D programs makes it easy for our clients to make the most of their IP."
Neil Muir, PwC
Director
"Lawrie care and have been the perfect IP partner to have on our journey."
Alan Mahon
Founder of Brewgooder
"Lawrie made IP simple to understand from the get-go. They explained everything in simple terms – they made it easy. I now have an IP strategy for my business which is more valuable than just having a patent."
Victoria Hamilton
Inventor of Recoil Kneepads
"Lawrie are so well organised and are very responsive, but the real value has come from being easy to work with. They have kept the legal jargon to a minimum and communicated clearly and simply which has helped us to feel in control and not lost in the process. They have certainly lived up to making IP pain-free."
Alexandre Colle
CEO, Konpanion
Proud to be trusted by:
At Lawrie, we understand how critical it is to diligently manage an active trade mark portfolio to secure and maintain your IP rights. Regularly reviewing your IP strategy is essential in ensuring it continues to align with and support your commercial objectives.
We know how challenging it can be to cover all the needs of a busy in- house legal department. Acting as an extension of your team, we will bring the specialist knowledge and capability you need to complement your own expertise and reduce your workload. Our mission is to be the easiest intellectual property team to work with, offering a pain-free IP service that provides clarity and gives direction, enabling you to confidently fend off competition and secure a market-leading position.