Fashion Lawyers

Your brand is your identity, a sign of quality and usually a major driving force behind a consumer purchase. Trade marks protect aspects of your brand identity, like names, logos and taglines.

We advise on a brand protection strategy for fashion businesses. If required, we’ll help you register trade marks and combat infringement.

Agreements are key tools in holding your other parties to account and protecting yourself and your rights.

Whether it’s a freelancer, manufacturing, distribution, consumer sales or wholesale agreement, we offer fixed fees to draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts and documents.

The cost of legal action often prohibits rights owners from being able to enforce their rights. This is especially so for smaller fashion brands, like individual designers and startups.

Ask us about our DesignProtect insurance, which gives you a fighting fund to pursue infringers and protect your designs.

Is the style, shape, surface decoration and pattern of your designs properly protected? Registering designs can help fashion brands to combat infringement and copying, whilst maximising their commercial value.

Briffa advises on both registered and unregistered design rights. We can also advise on a worldwide design protection strategy.

Copyright arises with artistic craftsmanship, as well as design sketches, logos and website layouts. It’s an automatic right under UK law, usually given to the creator or author.

We can advise on how to best protect your creative assets. And we can support you if an individual or company infringes your copyright.

Inside knowledge of the industry, supply chains and contacts are all valuable information to your fashion business. As are your design processes, business data and internal assets.

We can help you keep your knowledge secret with non-disclosure agreements and confidentiality advice.

Fashion pushes the boundaries of innovation. Perhaps you have an idea for wearable technology or a new fabric. If you want to protect your new invention, a patent may be required.

If so, our expert patent solicitors can advise you on patent protection and guide you through the application process.