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08 Nov Tim Cadman scoops third place at the Leicester Stand Up Challenge 2018

Posted at 15:44h in Company News

Serjeants’ senior associate and chartered patent and trade mark attorney, Tim Cadman, made his debut comedy performance at this year’s charity Leicester Stand Up Challenge. Not only was it Tim’s first time on stage, he was also awarded a very respectable third place in the Challenge...

08 Nov Serjeants’ Leanne Hall presents at the CITMA Autumn Conference

Posted at 13:00h in Company News, Trademarks

Serjeants’ expert trade mark attorney, Leanne Hall, was a guest speaker at this year’s autumn conference hosted by the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) at the ICC in Birmingham. The annual conference, which took place on 8th November, is a firm calendar fixture for...

30 Oct Serjeants’ Tim Cadman to take part in Leicester Stand Up Challenge 2018

Posted at 15:21h in Company News

Serjeants’ senior associate and chartered patent and trade mark attorney, Tim Cadman, is taking part in this year’s charity Stand Up Challenge in Leicester. Held during the Leicester Business Festival, the Stand Up Challenge will see prominent local business leaders take to the stage and perform...

08 Aug Success for young inventor with 3D printed underwater jetpack

Posted at 15:03h in Patents

A final year product design and technology student from Loughborough University, and now a client of Serjeants, has received international coverage of his latest invention - an underwater jetpack. Archie O’Brien designed and developed a functional prototype of his underwater jetpack in just 12 months as...

24 Jul Serjeants celebrates 40th anniversary

Posted at 10:10h in Company News

Serjeants is celebrating 40 years in business and setting its sights on future growth. Founded in 1978 by the late Andrew Serjeant, our team of professionally qualified patent and trade mark attorneys works with a range of businesses from multi-nationals to SMEs, as well as with...

02 May Trade mark enforcement success for Serjeants

Posted at 10:00h in IP Infringement, Trademarks

Serjeants’ expert trade mark attorneys recently triumphed at the specialist Intellectual Property Enterprise Court with a successful trade mark infringement claim that prevented a similar business to that of its client operating under an almost identical name. Whilst at first that seems like a straightforward case,...

27 Mar Amazon: assisting brand owners to protect their registered trade marks

Posted at 15:21h in Trademarks

It has been reported recently that Amazon® is now the fifth largest retailer in the UK, running closely behind the UK’s four biggest supermarket chains. With a marketplace as big as Amazon®, it’s not surprising that from time to time brand owners are faced with...

08 Mar Trade mark scammers target Serjeants

Posted at 15:49h in Trademarks, Uncategorised

We always warn clients to beware of scammers, who find out details of new trade mark applications and use them to send fake invoices for trade mark fees. We recently found ourselves on the receiving end of this type of scam! Serjeants filed an EU trade...

05 Dec Patrawin® and the ABBA museum

Posted at 11:07h in Company News

In March this year Serjeants switched to a new case management system – Patrawin®. The new system has allowed us to move a step closer towards becoming a paperless office as well as enabled us to handle cases more efficiently. We hope our clients are...

29 Nov Intellectual Property case roundup 2017

Posted at 11:31h in Patents, Trademarks

2017 has been a notable year for high profile intellectual property disputes that have had a major impact on UK patent and trade mark registrations and infringements. Serjeants’ Tim Cadman highlights the key points from a few of the more significant cases that have taken place...