Elaine is a UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorney who joined Dehns in 1996 and was made a Partner in 2007. Elaine is Head of Dehns’ Trade Mark Group.
Elaine works with a variety of clients, ranging from individuals to major companies with significant international trade mark portfolios.
She has extensive experience of handling all aspects of UK and European Union Trade Mark clearance, prosecution and enforcement, advising on and implementing searching and filing strategies, dealing with official objections, oppositions and cancellation/invalidity proceedings, advising in the areas of infringement and passing-off, and dispute resolution. She also advises on and handles domain name and company name disputes. Elaine likewise has considerable experience of filing and prosecuting International applications and in the protection and enforcement of trade marks worldwide.
Recent work for an international client involved a major IP strategic review as part of a global re-branding project. On the back of this review, Elaine developed and implemented the global IP strategy to ensure protection during future diversification of the business, including involvement in extensive and complex settlement negotiations.
Elaine works with clients in many different sectors, including fashion, lighting, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, estate agency, finance and insurance, healthcare and fitness, construction and chemistry.
BSc (Hons), University of Surrey, Law and French, 1996
As part of Elaine’s professional studies, she was awarded the Adrian Spencer Memorial Award for achieving first place in the Advanced Trade Mark Law Examination in 2000.
Since then, Elaine has been regularly highlighted and acknowledged as a leading trade mark expert in various leading legal and IP directories. This has included:
Elaine has also been named in the Who’s Who Legal: Trademarks 2019 Guide.
Elaine regularly represents the firm at various conferences and events organised by INTA, CITMA and Marques.
Elaine will be attending the INTA Annual Meeting in Singapore from 16th – 20th May. Please contact her if you’d like to arrange a meeting.
Elaine will be attending the Marques Annual Conference in Berlin from 19th – 22nd September. Please contact her if you’d like to arrange a meeting.
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