Trade-marks and Brand Management
Macleod Dixon's trade-mark services include:
- Trade-mark clearance and searching
- Filing and prosecuting trade-mark applications
- Official marks
- Opposition proceedings and litigation
- Negotiating and drafting co-existence agreements
- Protection and enforcement of trade-mark rights
- Negotiating and drafting licensing agreements
- Domain name registration and protection
- Negotiating and drafting distribution and co-branding agreements
- Portfolio management and branding strategy
Brand Management
- Advice provided to clients obtaining trade-mark licensing rights to the Olympic mark or to enhancing the value of their own marks
- Management of trade-mark infringement matters for clients with large trade-mark and copyright portfolios
- Created a trade-mark policy for a national sport organization
- Drafting of merchandising, distribution and licensing arrangements for trade-marked merchandise
- Internet co-marketing and co-branding issues
- Negotiated settlements regarding domain names (cyber-squatting) via various dispute resolution organizations