Trademark Attorney

Birketts is an ambitious full service, top 100 UK law firm, operating in East Anglia, London and the surrounding areas.  With a rich heritage spanning over 150 years we’ve built an enviable track record advising businesses, institutions and individuals in the UK and internationally.

Throughout our history our ethos has remained simple: we provide clear legal advice and value and insight to our clients.

We believe that through this approach and a combination of technical excellence and high quality service we can develop long-lasting partnerships and become our clients' solicitor of choice.

Our innovative and highly regarded Trademark and Branding team is led by Melanie Harvey. 

We advise a range of businesses from SMEs to major corporate entities on their global brand protection strategy.  The team provides the following services.

• Searches and filing services to register your trade marks and designs at the UK, EU and international registries including handling oppositions and cancellation proceedings at the registries.
• Management of national and international IP portfolios, including watching services, to monitor other people's applications.
• Trade mark renewals.
• Consolidating registered rights and corporate restructuring to transfer registered rights into dedicated holding companies.
• Commercial agreements for the licensing of brand rights including franchising distribution and manufacture.
• IP enforcement and dispute resolution.
• Advice on all aspects of advertising and marketing law in connection with the promotion of brands. Our experience covers compliance with advertising regulations and the legality of advertising campaigns and sales promotions (including misleading and comparative advertising), digital marketing and social media campaigns, ambush marketing and dispute resolution.

We seek to recruit a confident Attorney who can come in and manage and advise on the full range of IP issues, both contentious and non-contentious.  There is already an existing workload so ideal candidates should be used to handling high-volume workloads, working directly with clients, handling cases at the UKIPO and liaising with overseas associates.  The position will require the new hire to work almost independently. 

We are looking to recruit a very dynamic/proactive Attorney with 3-5+ years PQE. The candidate must be self-motivated, pro-active, extremely organised, have a strong academic record, and have very good IT skills. The position will often involve working collaboratively with other members of the team (particularly the litigation team), so good communication skills are essential. In addition to having substantial trade mark experience, experience in designs, litigation and brand protection experience would be very desirable.

CITMA is essential. 

We are committed to recruiting individuals on merits of suitability for each role, on the basis of qualifications and experience. All applications are treated fairly and equally regardless of sexual orientation, race, disability, religious beliefs and any other protected characteristic, ensuring that there are equal opportunities at all stages of the recruitment process.