Services

Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.

For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.

Services

Sectors

Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.

Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.

They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.

Sectors

City Sightseeing Limited

Supporting the international expansion of the City Sightseeing brand

The context

City Sightseeing is the operator of the familiar colourful tour buses seen in tourist destinations around the world. City Sightseeing initially operated in the UK and in Spain, but during the last decade they have dramatically expanded their operation so that tourists can now enjoy bus tours in more than 100 cities in more than 30 countries around the world. Tours in each city are operated by City Sightseeing itself, or by franchisees.

Our work

We have supported City Sightseeing’s successful expansion by developing and implementing a trade mark registration strategy, and advising on franchising and enforcement of their trade mark rights, in countries from the China to the Caribbean and Africa to Iceland.