Intellectual property—enforcement and dispute resolution

Our specialist intellectual property lawyers advise individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, charities and national and international businesses on a wide range of intellectual property disputes. 

We act for both claimants and defendants, dealing with copyright and trademark infringement and enforcement, disputes relating to counterfeit goods, passing-off, as well as domain-name disputes. 

We specialise in resolving the full range of intellectual property disputes, whether through litigation, negotiation, or other forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. We understand that any intellectual property dispute can represent a significant distraction to your day-to-day operations and pose a serious financial and/or reputational risk.

We can help you with:

• copyright disputes
• trademark disputes
• counterfeit goods disputes
• passing-off
• domain-name disputes
• company name disputes
• private prosecutions arising from the infringement of intellectual property rights

Our approach is to develop long term strategic relationships with our clients, where we gain a thorough understanding of their business, culture and practices. This enables us to add value for you. as we can deliver tailored, proactive, responsive, commercially pragmatic and frequently imaginative advice and strategy.

We understand the importance of cost effective and timely advice. Our primary objective is to achieve the best overall outcome for our clients as quickly as possible. We aim to resolve matters at the earliest stage possible through commercial negotiations, or alternative dispute resolution (including arbitration, adjudication and mediation).

Where alternative resolution is not possible, we’re equally comfortable taking matters to trial where we’ll robustly defend our clients’ interests. 

Russell-Cooke is a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge.

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Charges are usually based on our hourly rates plus administrative charges and disbursements. We’ll provide an initial estimate of your likely legal costs and will update this if your requirements or the circumstances of the work change.

We also have a flexible and innovative approach to litigation funding which, in appropriate cases, enables us to offer our clients a number of funding options tailored to a client’s particular requirements. For further information please read our commercial litigation funding information page.