Trademarks and Designs
Overview
Our trademark and design practice provides strategic advice to trademark and design owners and assists them in the prosecution and enforcement of their portfolios in Belgium, Europe, and worldwide.
Top-tier companies look to Crowell & Moring and its sharp and dynamic litigators for staunch representation in crucial commercial conflicts.
— World Trademark Review 1000
Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.01.25
Four Crowell Attorneys Named World Trademark Review 2025 Global Leaders
Chicago – July 1, 2025: World Trademark Review has recognized four Crowell & Moring attorneys in its WTR Global Leaders 2025 guide. The guide, which is in its seventh edition, “brings together the world’s foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives.”
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.27.23
Crowell & Moring Wins Two Impact Case Awards at Managing IP EMEA Awards
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.13.23
Unpacking the European Commission’s EU Design Reform Package
Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.16.23
Representative Matters
- Represented clients in trademark opposition and invalidity proceedings before the EUIPO and BOIP.
- Represented a client in litigation relating to an alleged bad faith trademark registration.
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in litigation relating to the validity of a color trademark.
- Represented a food manufacturer in a trademark infringement case, including litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
- Represented a betting company in litigation against a premier league soccer team relating to the use of their name for a betting app.
- Represented a German manufacturer of juices in litigation relating to the alleged infringement of a 3D trademark for pouches.
- Advised an international trade association on how to protect its new name and logo, as well as on the use thereof by its members.
- Advised on the development of a trademark and registered design portfolio related to luxury leisure wear and on intra-company licensing agreements to ensure fiscal optimization of IP-based revenue.
- Registered design litigation on behalf of an agricultural machinery engineering company to stop the sale of counterfeit machinery by a former business partner of our client.
- Represented a leading European media company in trademark litigation in several European countries against a leading U.S. media company.
- Advised on the development and protection of a brand of new champagne.
- Represented multinationals and global social media operators in trademark infringement litigation against social media users.
- Represented pharmaceutical companies in parallel import litigation.
- Assisted a leading global lighting manufacturer by (i) providing advice on its existing trademark and designs portfolio and enforcement strategy; (ii) representing it in a trademark dispute with a competitor; and (iii) assisting it in its ongoing battle against counterfeit lighting fixtures; (iv) handling a commercial negotiation in relation to design and copyright infringements.
- Obtained a counterfeit seizure on behalf of a manufacturer of horse trucks in order to discover the origin and scope of a design and copyright infringement.
Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.01.25
Four Crowell Attorneys Named World Trademark Review 2025 Global Leaders
Chicago – July 1, 2025: World Trademark Review has recognized four Crowell & Moring attorneys in its WTR Global Leaders 2025 guide. The guide, which is in its seventh edition, “brings together the world’s foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives.”
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.27.23
Crowell & Moring Wins Two Impact Case Awards at Managing IP EMEA Awards
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.13.23
Unpacking the European Commission’s EU Design Reform Package
Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.16.23
Insights
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07.09.21
World Trademark Review
Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.01.25
Four Crowell Attorneys Named World Trademark Review 2025 Global Leaders
Chicago – July 1, 2025: World Trademark Review has recognized four Crowell & Moring attorneys in its WTR Global Leaders 2025 guide. The guide, which is in its seventh edition, “brings together the world’s foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives.”
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.27.23
Crowell & Moring Wins Two Impact Case Awards at Managing IP EMEA Awards
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.13.23
Unpacking the European Commission’s EU Design Reform Package
Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.16.23
Practices
Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.01.25
Four Crowell Attorneys Named World Trademark Review 2025 Global Leaders
Chicago – July 1, 2025: World Trademark Review has recognized four Crowell & Moring attorneys in its WTR Global Leaders 2025 guide. The guide, which is in its seventh edition, “brings together the world’s foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives.”
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.27.23
Crowell & Moring Wins Two Impact Case Awards at Managing IP EMEA Awards
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.13.23
Unpacking the European Commission’s EU Design Reform Package
Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.16.23