From first recipe to supermarket shelf, how to protect and maximise the value of what you have built.
Food and drink is a competitive global market, and the risks to your brand have never been higher. Your IP is what keeps your products yours. It also makes your business more attractive to investors, retailers and partners.
Our multidisciplinary team brings together trade mark attorneys, patent attorneys, design attorneys and IP solicitors, so you can get the advice you need from one source. We work with heritage brands, growing businesses and ambitious start-ups, from craft breweries to household names.
Our food and drink services covers the full range of IP, so every part of your business is protected, not only the brand.
We help you protect your brands and packaging with trade marks and designs, secure new products and production methods with patents, and safeguard your recipes and know-how as trade secrets. We also draft the supply, distribution and licensing agreements that protect and commercialise your IP, and review your labelling and advertising claims.
Once your rights are in place, we monitor the market, including through our online brand protection service, and act when someone copies or infringes them. We can defend your rights before IP offices and in court, with trusted associates supporting you around the world.
We offer tailored client solutions at every stage, and many come at a fixed price. These include Safeguard, our trade secret audit, and our fixed-price IP packages for start-ups, SMEs and investors.
Meet the trade mark attorneys, patent attorneys, design specialists and IP solicitors who make up our food and drink team.
Working closely across disciplines and jurisdictions, our team delivers clear, actionable and commercially focused advice, from first recipe to retail shelf. They can act directly before the UKIPO and EUIPO, as well as in Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, supported by trusted overseas associates for other global jurisdictions.
We bring our expertise from all areas of IP law—patents, designs, trade marks, copyright, litigation, and licensing—to provide IP consultancy tailored to your needs with clear and measurable outputs.
Our approach is built around four key stages: Identify. Protect. Commercialise. Enforce.
At each stage, our attorneys and IP solicitors work together to help you set your IP strategy, manage your portfolio, commercialise your rights and take action where needed. The roadmap below shows how these stages play out as your business grows.
Our Food & Drink Insights
From products, to white papers and industry news. A selection of handpicked industry specific material can be found below.
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