Ogier’s Intellectual Property team acts across the full spectrum of intellectual property rights, including brands and trade marks, copyright, industrial designs and patents, specialising in multi-jurisdictional intellectual property clearance, prosecution, exploitation and enforcement.

Our IP experts are pragmatic and commercial in their approach to providing solutions for all types and sizes of business at all stages of the intellectual property life cycle, including advice on how to register a trade mark. Supported by our experienced colleagues in our dispute resolution, corporate and regulatory teams, we provide a holistic service that is global in reach and of the highest quality.

Our experts can support you, whether you need to know the document requirements and classification systems for trade mark filing, renewals in specific countries and whether or not the Paris Convention applies, and more.

Intellectual Property services:

• Global strategic IP prosecution and portfolio management
• IP clearance, investigation and searching
• IP disputes and enforcement
• IP renewals and maintenance
• IP acquisitions and due diligence
• IP licensing and commercial contracts
• IP advice relating to economic substance
• Caribbean and offshore IP
• How to register or file a trade mark

IP experts based out of our Cayman Islands office are renowned in particular for their work protecting and managing IP rights throughout the Caribbean, leading offshore jurisdictions and in Central and Latin America as a one-stop shop. IP Partner Sophie Peat is widely recognised as a leading attorney in this highly specialised space and acts as a trustworthy adviser to an array of leading international law firms and brand owners. Industry feedback describes Sophie as being "instrumental to the success of her clients".

Key specialist jurisdictions include: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Netherlands, the Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Caribbean including French Polynesia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Jersey, Mauritius, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Maarten, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, the US Virgin Islands, and Venezuela.

Ogier has published a range of trade marks fact sheets to guide clients through the Caribbean trademark prosecution process. Guides also cover Central America, South America and a range of other jurisdictions. See: Ogier Trade Marks Prosecution fact sheets | Ogier.