Claire has extensive experience in all areas of trade mark and design protection, particularly those relating to conflict issues and dispute resolution.

She joined the firm in 1994 and became a Partner in 1996. Today, as principal, she is a highly proactive and imaginative practitioner, setting the same standard across the practice as a whole.

Claire’s career in trade marks started in 1982 when she joined a large and well known practice. Here she gained considerable experience in trade mark portfolio management, including clearance for use and protection. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the early nineties, returning to private practice in 1992.

Claire is a Member of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, qualified by examination. She is also a European Trade Mark Attorney, a Registered Trade Mark Agent, and a Professional representative authorised to practice before the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market.

She holds a Trade Mark and Designs Litigator’s Certificate, which entitles her to conduct litigation in the High Court and the Patents County Court. This includes rights of audience in the County Court in Trade Mark and Design Litigation.

Claire has been a long-standing member of the International Trade Mark Association’s leadership team, including participating on the Sub-Committee on non-traditional trade marks for Europe and Central Asia.