Advisory and coordination across the full brand-protection lifecycle

We work with in-house legal and trademark teams to assess portfolio strength, identify gaps in class and territorial coverage, and evaluate watch-service alerts for potentially conflicting marks.

Where a filing, opposition or cancellation proceeding is warranted, we coordinate strategy and supporting documentation with your trademark counsel or a qualified local practitioner authorised to act in that jurisdiction. We do not file or prosecute applications ourselves where local admission is required.

Continuous monitoring for unauthorised use of brand names, logos and creative assets across websites, search advertising, social media and affiliate networks.

We assess the severity and likely commercial impact of each instance, document evidence to a standard suitable for legal use, and coordinate takedown or escalation with the relevant platform, your internal legal team, or local counsel where formal action is required.

Assessment of domain registrations that infringe, dilute or impersonate a brand — including typosquats, homograph domains and bad-faith registrations designed to divert traffic or deceive customers.

We coordinate dispute strategy, including administrative dispute-resolution proceedings and registrar-level reporting, with counsel authorised to file on your behalf, and advise on defensive registration priorities to reduce future exposure.

Structured reporting programs addressing counterfeit and unauthorised listings across major e-commerce and marketplace platforms.

We help design a repeatable escalation workflow, prepare rights-holder documentation to each platform's required standard, and coordinate submissions through brand-protection and intellectual-property reporting channels — reducing the burden on internal teams handling high listing volumes.

Assessment and coordinated response to fraudulent social accounts, spoofed domains, phishing campaigns and other schemes that impersonate a brand to deceive customers or employees.

We help prioritise exposure by risk to customers, employees and brand reputation, and coordinate takedown requests with platforms and registrars — with referral to law-enforcement or regulatory channels where appropriate and directed by your organisation.

For matters spanning multiple markets, we coordinate strategy, sequencing and documentation across a network of local counsel and enforcement contacts, so that responses in different jurisdictions are consistent and do not undermine one another.

Sinclair & Blackstone does not represent local counsel in any jurisdiction. We support your legal team in briefing, sequencing and coordinating that representation, and in maintaining a single, coherent record across the matter.