Kilburn & Strode LLP
Client SatisfactionKilburn & Strode LLP offers clients cross-border advice on filing programmes, disputes, and enforcement matters. The group frequently represents clients before the UKIPO, EUIPO, and WIPO, and growing areas for the team include online enforcement and anti-counterfeiting mandates. Iain Stewart, who divides his time between the UK and the Netherlands, solely leads the team with portfolio management being a core element of his practice. The ‘absolutely exceptional’ Rowena Tolley has a growing UK client base, while Ryan Pixton is well placed to handle multinational filings and opposition proceedings. Previous co-head Carrollanne Lindley has moved into a consultancy role.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
'Iain Stewart is well experienced and very responsive.'
- 'Ryan Pixton is very diligent and a pleasant professional. Ben Scarfield is commercially astute and knows what matters to me.'
‘Kilburn & Strode's team acts as our in-house team. They handle all trade mark-related work, including management of our portfolio. The team is cohesive and covers the required expertise to support a company's branding strategy in an integrated and cost efficient way.'
‘Rowena Tolley is absolutely exceptional and it is a real pleasure to work with her. While genuinely focused on working towards her clients best interests, Rowena provides valuable and strategic advice in a variety of matters, including brand portfolio management, prosecution, oppositions, clearance searches, and more.'
‘Highly skilled and experienced trade mark powerhouse. Easily able to handle also large projects. Hands-on advice.’
‘Iain Stewart, Ryan Pixton and Ben Scarfield stand out. Highly recommended and all of them a pleasure to deal with. ’
‘The trade mark team at Kilburn & Strode is agile and very responsive. They have invested time in learning about our business, and they understand our longer term objectives as well as our more immediate needs. Their advice and support are always tailored to our particular circumstances, and they make management of our trademark portfolio a pleasure.’
‘Rowena Tolley is a fantastic attorney. She is very responsive, and her advice is always practical and tuned to our needs. I couldn't recommend her highly enough.’
Key clients
- The Entertainment Industry Foundation
- Flight Club Darts & Electric Shuffle
- BlackBerry Limited
- Radio College of Radiologists
- TAAL Distributed Information Technologies, Inc
- Elastic
- Eternal Ink, LLC
- Valve Corporation
- Delta Air Lines, Inc
- Renault S.A.S
- easyGroup
- Puro Sound Labs LLC
- Teladoc Health, Inc
- Mastercard
Work highlights
- Advising easyGroup as part of integrated legal panel in over thirty countries on matters before the High Court, IPEC, UKIPO, and EUIPO.
- Advised WhatsApp on urgent multi-mark clearance and advisory work in support of an international advertising campaign.
- Advising Flight Club Darts & Electric Shuffle on strategic portfolio and protection matters, and infringement and dispute resolution.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Iain Stewart