Someone is selling under our name in another country and our trade mark application was never finished.
Brand and IP are usually the most valuable thing a founder-led business owns and the least well documented. We get ownership straight, get it registered where it matters, and enforce it when someone tests you.
Dinmore Bell establishes what a business actually owns, puts that ownership in the right entity, and protects it commercially through assignments, licensing and enforcement. Patent and trade mark prosecution is carried out by registered attorneys; Dinmore Bell sets the strategy, instructs them and controls the spend.
How we own it
Ownership first
Assignments from founders, contractors and agencies. A surprising amount of IP is legally owned by a freelancer from 2019.
Registration where it counts
A filing strategy driven by where you sell and where you manufacture, not by a portfolio manager's renewal schedule.
Enforcement
Infringement, passing off, domain and marketplace takedowns, and the commercial settlement that ends it.
Where specialists come in
Patent and trade mark prosecution is carried out by registered attorneys. We set the strategy, instruct them and control the spend.
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The decision is usually made by whoever incorporated first, then lived with for years.
Where nine per cent of your revenue goes
Contract value rarely leaks in a single expensive event. It leaks quietly, through renewal dates nobody owns.
- What does IP support from an outsourced General Counsel involve?
- Establishing what the business actually owns, putting ownership in the right entity, and protecting it commercially — assignments from contractors and employees, licensing terms, brand clearance, and enforcement against misuse. The strategy sits with us; the registry work is instructed.
- Do you file patents and trade marks yourselves?
- No. Patent and trade mark prosecution is carried out by registered attorneys. We set the strategy, instruct them and control the spend.
- What is the most common IP problem you find?
- Ownership that was never assigned. Work done by contractors, agencies or founders before incorporation frequently sits outside the company, and it usually surfaces during diligence at the worst possible moment.