IP Litigator
- Employer
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Location
- Bristol
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 3 Oct 2019
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Mid Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property
Job Details
At Burges Salmon, you will gain professional development with a structured path to advancing your career. You will be guided by a supportive leadership team to enhance your skills and experience.
When you join our collaborative environment, you will have the opportunity to take responsibility for your work and to be trusted to get on with things. We will provide you with a professional, friendly and sociable setting in which to thrive and realise your potential.
• Investors in People Gold Standard
Location
This opportunity is based in Bristol, 2 minutes stroll from Temple Meads train station. Here, you will be in the heart of the city with easy access to some of the best attractions Bristol has to offer, including the theatre, shopping, restaurants, museums and art galleries.
Team
The team is known for “comprehensive commercial and contentious IP offering to rival those of City and international firms.” (Chambers).
We offer advice on all aspects of intellectual property, including ownership and protection, exploitation and enforcement (both litigation and Registry based proceedings).
Our client base of global brands includes:
BBC // Discovery Channel // Starbucks // Victoria`s Secret // Virgin// Yeo Valley
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Jeremy Dickerson
What others say...
“An excellent team. They are commercial, a pleasure to work with and they come up with novel ideas about how to tackle things.” Chambers UK 2019.
Work
As an IP Litigator, you will work collaboratively with our clients to deliver pragmatic, commercial advice on complex intellectual property disputes and pre launch clearance advice. You will need proven experience in intellectual property dispute resolution across a broad range of business sectors, particularly in the media, retail, sports and leisure, luxury goods and food and drink sectors.
We undertake a considerable amount of registry work – both in the UK and the EU - and are also looking for someone who has experience in Registry proceedings such as Oppositions, invalidity and cancellation proceedings and Appeals.
We take pride in our established track record for successful cases and have acted for clients in the High Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, UK and European trade mark offices, Company Names Tribunal, in domain name disputes and at all stages of appeals.
Key areas of focus are:
• UK, EU and international trade marks.
• Disputes involving trade marks passing off,
• Patents,
• Copyright,
• Designs,
• Confidential information,
• Domain names.
Requirements
We look for individuals who have developed themselves and their capabilities, coupled with commercial acumen and experience. You will have strong, demonstrable experience in intellectual property dispute resolutions. You will be a team player, able to manage a complex and varied workload effectively, and demonstrate a willingness to learn and be self-motivated.
We are committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working patterns.
Get in touch!
Our resourcing team can provide firm insight and an overview of the department to make sure this is the right next career for you. For a confidential conversation call or email:
Victoria Lewton
T: 0117 307 6942 E: victoria.lewton@burges-salmon.com
Company
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.
Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.
Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.
We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment. The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.
Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.
Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.
Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.
We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment. The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.
Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Website
- http://www.burges-salmon.com/
- Telephone
- (0117) 939 2000
- Location
-
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
Avon
BS2 0ZX
GB
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