IP Design Legal Services

IP Design Legal Services Designed to protect and support businesses.

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Innovation deserves protection. Whether you are developing a new product, creating distinctive designs or building a recognisable brand, protecting your intellectual property is essential to maintaining your competitive advantage. At Acuity Law, we understand that great design is about far more than appearance, it represents investment, creativity, commercial value and future growth.

Our specialist IP Design team works with businesses of every size, from ambitious start-ups and creative agencies to established manufacturers, retailers and international organisations. We advise on both inherent unregistered rights that may subsist in your product design and help with what more you can do by way of registration.  We also handle filings through the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and regularly act for clients in complex design right disputes

Our team combines technical legal expertise with commercial insight to deliver practical advice that supports and protects innovation. Rather than simply identifying legal risks, we focus on finding innovative commercial solutions that help our clients achieve their objectives while protecting the value they have created.

Whether you need strategic advice on protecting new designs, enforcing your rights or navigating complex commercial arrangements, we are committed to delivering solutions that make a real difference to your business and contribute to its long-term success.

Our Specialist IP Design Services

Working closely in partnership with our clients, often as an extension of their in-house team, our IP Design advice and guidance helps clients seize opportunities while managing legal risk effectively. Whether you require support on a single design issue or ongoing strategic advice across your entire intellectual property portfolio, we provide clear commercial guidance that allows you to focus on growing your business with confidence. Our specialist services include:

Registering your designs provides valuable legal protection against copying and unauthorised use. We carry out filings in the UK and EU and work with agents internationally.  We advise businesses throughout the registration process, helping identify which designs should be protected and the critical timing of those applications.  We develop strategies that maximise the commercial value of design portfolios and ensure that applications are prepared efficiently and effectively.

Work Highlights

Furniture design – copyright and design right defence
Successfully defending copyright and unregistered design right infringement claims made by an iconic British interior design company in relation to various pieces of furniture manufactured, designed and sold by our renowned client.
Design right – interior design and fashion retail
Successfully defending UK and EU-registered and unregistered design right claims made against an iconic interior designer and, similarly, in relation to a multinational US fashion retailer trading in the UK.
International brand strategy
Devising international brand protection strategies for a number of large, multi-national clients.
IP advice for Trinity Brands
Advising Trinity Brands, the owner of high-end fashion labels, on all business operations matters, including protecting the IP owned by the brands in the group and various IP licensing arrangements.
SNC Mission Systems UK Limited
Advising SNC Mission Systems UK Limited in relation to protecting and exploiting its IP assets internationally.

Speak to one of our expert IP Design lawyers

Whether you need assistance on inherent unregistered rights that may subsist in your product design, help with what more you can do by way of registration or advice on a complex design right dispute our expert IP Design lawyers are ready to help. Get in touch for an initial conversation.

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What Our Clients Say

The team are highly responsive, friendly and have strong knowledge of the industry

The team is very knowledgeable and responsive. They understand our business and provide proactive and solutions-driven advice.

Straightforward to work with, sensible advice to get things done with minimum fuss.

Available to call upon when we need to provide expert advice. Easy to work with and reliable in keeping us updated as registrations progress over a prolonged period.

Supporting Your Business Every Step of the Way

We believe exceptional legal advice should do more than explain the law, it should help businesses make better commercial decisions.

Our aim is to provide commercial solutions that maximises your design value support and make a real difference. We recognise that every business is different, which is why we work in close partnership with every client, taking the time to understand their business and what is important to them.

By combining specialist expertise with innovative commercial thinking, we help businesses protect what makes them unique. We are proud to deliver solutions that make a genuine difference, building lasting relationships founded on trust, collaboration and a shared commitment to success.

Whether you require support on a one-off matter or ongoing strategic advice, our specialist IP Team will work alongside you and your team, helping you to realise true commercial value.

Awards & Credentials

The Intellectual Property Team is ranked Tier 2 in the Legal 500

Legal 500

Cordelia is listed as Recommended in the Legal 500 for their work in Intellectual Property

Legal 500

Our Intellectual Property Lawyers

Our commercial and technology lawyers are approachable, commercially minded and genuinely invested in the outcomes they achieve for clients. Get in touch directly, we are always happy to talk through what you need.

Meet the wider team

Cordelia Payne

Consultant Partner
Intellectual Property Team London
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Our expertise. We Also Advise and Support On

Apart from supporting you and your business on a wide range of IP Development issues, we also offer a full range of legal services designed to support and protect your business at every stage including:

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Intellectual Property

Apart from IP Development, our specialist team provide support and guidance on a wide range of intellectual property issues including trademarks, brand management, patients, copyrighting and IP disputes and litigation.

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Start-ups

Specialist legal advice for early-stage businesses navigating their first investment rounds and corporate structures.

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Corporate

From Series A funding and management buyouts to major acquisitions and full exits, we act on transactions at every stage of the business lifecycle.

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Employment & HR

A full range of employment and HR Legal advice including TUPE advice, tribunal defence, HR documentation.

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Need a law firm on a retainer with preferable rates?

Our Acuity Counsel Service provides you with your own dedicated team, with the ability to manage budget and control costs.

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Ready to talk?

Whether you need assistance on inherent unregistered rights that may subsist in your product design, help with what more you can do by way of registration or advice on a complex design right dispute our expert IP Design lawyers are ready to help. Get in touch for an initial conversation.