Enforcement & disputes
Act early. Do not write a reckless letter.
UK intellectual property has a distinctive trap: groundless threats. We plan seizures, takedowns and court work so the first letter is accurate, and so you are not the defendant in your own complaint.
Where the work lives
Most brand and design disputes that a mid-market company will actually fight belong in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, not the High Court Patents Court. We scope evidence, costs budgets and without-prejudice windows with that forum in mind.
Online, we run platform notices, domain complaints and HMRC customs applications so infringing stock is intercepted at the border rather than discounted on a marketplace at the weekend.
Threats, used carefully
Section 70 of the Patents Act 1977 and section 21 of the Trade Marks Act 1994 still punish certain threat letters. We draft so customers and distributors are not wrongly threatened, and so a retailer is not handed a counterclaim.
Reserved conduct — issuing proceedings, certain advocacy — is done by solicitors or patent/trade mark attorneys we instruct. Curiterealm coordinates the file, the evidence and the commercial objective.
Customs recordation
Applications to HMRC so officers can detain suspected infringing goods at UK ports and airports.
Marketplaces
Repeatable takedown packs for the platforms your customers actually use, with a log of seller identities for the next step.
Evidence
Trap purchases, dated captures, and chain-of-custody notes that still stand up six months later in IPEC.