Trade Marks

A trade mark can be just about anything that distinguishes your business.

OUT-LAW Guides (UK law)

• Trade marks: the basics
• Registering a trade mark in the UK
• Registering a trade mark in the EU
• Registering a trade mark through the Madrid Protocol
• Enlargement of the EU and the Community Trade Mark
• Registration of colour trade marks: Guidance from the European Court of Justice
• When is a trade mark considered distinctive?
• The use of trade marks in meta tags

Recent OUT-LAW News

• US court orders online advertiser to use 'negative keywords'
• Apple blocks cheaper UK iPod sales
• Red Bull wins redbullsucks.com from energy drink rival
• Google's trade mark policy change, the cost to brand owners and the law
• Acceleration of trade mark process is welcomed

Added-value services

Our trade marks team, which includes qualified Trade Mark Attorneys, can help with searching, filing trade mark applications around the world, and prosecution, as well as drafting and negotiating licences and assignments. Find out about our Trade Marks and Design Services.

OUT-LAW contacts

• Lindsey Wrenn, Partner and Head of Trade Marks, Leeds, 0113 225 5439
• John MacKenzie, Partner, Glasgow, 0141 249 5412
• Cerys Wyn-Davies, Partner, Birmingham, 0121 625 3056

Useful links

• Regulation on the Community trade mark
  Directive 1993
• Trade Marks Act 1994
• The Trade Marks Rules 2000

See also

• Legal info about trade marks
• Our recent trade marks experience