Designs team

— Meet the team
— Insights from our team
— Other teams

Our specialist team of design experts is one of the most experienced in the UK, working with global businesses as well as SMEs across a variety of industry sectors, from fashion to toys and from automotive to aerospace engineering. We can advise you, internationally, on all aspects of the protection, maintenance and enforcement of your design rights from searching and preliminary advice, registration and prosecution of the design, alignment with other rights to cancellation and infringement.

We have a dedicated design renewal team experienced in the maintenance of design registrations around the globe.

Meet the team

Below are the key members of the Designs team.

Patrick Chapman

Partner
Michael Conway

Partner
Andrew Flaxman

Partner
Nicole Ockl

Partner, Head of Legal, Trademarks and Designs (Germany)
Greg Sharp

Partner
Sanjeet Plaha

Partner
Laura Robyn

Associate
Martin Krause

Consultant

Insights from our team

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Other teams

With highly experienced patent attorneys in the UK and Germany able to represent clients before the European Patent Office and the national patent offices of Germany and the United Kingdom, we have one of the largest and best-established Tech patent teams in Europe.

The Team has a wealth of experience protecting inventions in fields as diverse as biochemistry, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, ceramics, chemical engineering, petrochemistry, materials, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, microbiology, immunology & antibodies, molecular biology, food technology and many more.

Our Engineering & Environment team is one of the largest specialist engineering departments in Europe. Our attorneys are acutely focussed on engineering technologies, and this shows in their technical understanding and the quality of their work.

Our team of experienced and commercially focussed trade mark attorneys together with our dedicated paralegals will provide you with the support that is right for your brands and your business.

Our in-house litigation team – specialist leading IP lawyers and scientifically specialised attorneys – are recognised by multiple legal rankings. Our success rate of 82% over the last 10 years speaks for itself.