UKIPO Disputes - Cost Effective Services

With almost 20 years' experience of managing and appearing in cases before the UKIPO, it is a real area of expertise.

The UKIPO has a scale of costs which is very easily exceeded, and so the use of UKIPO proceedings has to be done with care: parties to disputes can very easily run up massive legal bills,  particularly where their legal advisors are not experienced in advanced disputes before the UKIPO.  

Whilst many in the industry will point to the fact that disputes are often resolved by way of negotiation and do not proceed to evidence, this creates two "blind spots":

Firstly, if the dispute does not settle then the lawyers (who are accustomed to settling) may have little experience in the steps that follow and the outcome may be less than optimal; and

Secondly, as these lawyers are not experienced in the latter part of the disputes they may have less ability to assess the strength of any case.  What this means is they may not be able to really assess the attractiveness of any offer and may also (consciously or unconsciously) want to impress the desire to settle at any cost on a client not because it is a good outcome, but because they are uncomfortable with the latter parts of the dispute.

The extensive experience in this area means we are accustomed to the entire process, are able to more accurately assess the attractiveness of any options and can deal with the latter parts more cost-effectively (including offering fixed-fee services for disputes, where requested)