The Services

The information explosion has enormously widened possibilities for research. This company’s extensive IT facilities and databases ensure it is well placed to meet the challenges posed by investigations into the use and abuse of intellectual property rights as well as other areas of litigation.

The following specific activities can be identified:

1. Investigations into the current and past use of trade marks and patents
2. Information on the activities and trading status of corporate and individual proprietors of trade marks and patents
3. Collection and collation of evidence in respect of infringement proceedings
4. A negotiating facility for assignment of trade marks and domain names on behalf of an undisclosed principal.

Clients
Clients include trade mark and patent attorneys and solicitors as well as a world-wide range of commercial and industrial organisations.

Geography
The company operates throughout the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States of America. Other countries, including those of the Far East, are also encompassed in selected areas of the company’s operations.

Fees
Budget limits are agreed with Clients at the outset of each investigation. These are based on a standard hourly rate or premium hourly rate depending on the urgency of the investigation. Fixed fee rates are available for trade mark ‘in-use’ investigations and details can be obtained upon application.