England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Osborne Clarke LLP
‘Commercially focused and intuitive’ Osborne Clarke LLP’s broad offering encompasses trade mark portfolio management and strategic brand issues, with particular expertise in technology-related matters. The team is also recommended for its work in advising clients on copyright protection in the digital environment. Practice head Arty Rajendra has recently been involved in copyright and database claims, while IP litigator Robert Guthrie focuses on trade marks and copyright. Richard May is well versed in advising clients on matters arising from the tech, gaming, retail and life sciences arenas, routinely handling brand protection issues and IP disputes.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘The team is very responsive to client requests and has adapted its approach to billing, monitoring against budget and deliverable tracking to suit our needs. The team has used an innovative customised technology platform to deliver our needs.’
‘Individuals are pragmatic, commercial, timely and risk aware. Anna Rawlings is a skilled, highly effective and resourceful senior associate.’
‘The Osborne Clarke team are very commercially focused and intuitive. They see problems arising and have an ability to 'think around corners.''
'They are both commercially savvy and innovative in both their approach and execution and have never failed to deliver a favourable result in UK trade mark oppositions.’
‘Richard May is technically excellent and very commercially savvy. It is a pleasure to partner with Richard May on contentious trade mark matters. Richard is highly approachable and easy to converse with.'
'I would recommend Richard and his team without hesitation for trade mark prosecution and brand protection matters in the UK.’
Key clients
- Block, Inc.
- Peanut App Limited
- Amstel Brouwerij B.V.
- ContextLogic, wish.com
- Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group Limited, Peacocks Stores Limited, Jaeger Retail Limited, Duvetco Limited (all in administration)
- JPMorganChase
- The & Partners
- The Scotch Whisky Association
- Howdens
Work highlights
- Advising and representing Block, Inc. and Squareup in defending a High Court action Craig Wright & Others v BTC Core & Others. Craig Steven Wright is claiming infringement in respect to copyright and database rights in the Bitcoin blockchain.
- Advising Edinburgh Woollen Mill group on the recovery of domain names transferred out from the Edinburgh Woollen Mill group, and pursuing trade mark infringement claims in the High Court.
- Advising Amstel Brouwerij B.V in a series of UK trade mark opposition proceedings against Anheuser-Busch, LLC regarding the mark ULTRA which Amstel argue is descriptive/non-registrable. Our win for Amstel in the UK IPO was recently upheld by the Appointed Person.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Arty Rajendra