Home / People / Kara Tompsett

Kara Tompsett

Senior Associate
Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

Portrait ofKara Tompsett

Kara Tompsett

Senior Associate
Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Kara Tompsett is a Senior Associate in the Contentious IP department where she advises on a variety of contentious and non-contentious soft intellectual property matters including trade mark and design clearance, filing advice, protection and enforcement.  She manages trade mark portfolios in the UK, EU and globally and she has worked on several disputes before the UK IPO and EUIPO.

Kara works with a broad range of clients ranging from individuals to start-up companies to multinational corporations and her clients span several divergent sectors including telecommunications, retail, real estate, media, fashion and finance.

Kara qualified as a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney in 2014 and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys.

more less

Relevant experience

  • Collating and drafting evidence for one of the UK’s largest telecommunications companies in high profile litigation and running numerous UK trade mark oppositions.
  • Conducting UK and EU trade mark clearance for several new brands for the world's largest technology company.
  • Conducting global clearance and preparing filing strategies a well-known British food delivery company and subsequently overseeing filings, prosecution and enforcement of trade marks.
  • Providing support (including trade mark clearance and filing strategies) for several UK start up companies.
more less

Memberships & Roles

  • Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
more less

Education

  • 2004 – LL.B, University of Leicester, Leicester.
more less

Expertise

Feed

01/03/2024
The building blocks of Lego’s registered Community design remain strong
In a decision likely to be appreciated by design rights holders, the General Court of the European Union (“GC”) confirmed the Lego toy brick’s status as a registered Community design (“RCD”)...
Law-Now Consumer Products
19/04/2023
Now You See It…: CJEU issues its decision on parts of designs ‘visible...
On 16 February 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its Decision in a request for a preliminary ruling by the Federal Patent Court of Germany (Bundes­pat­ent­gericht) on the...
Law-Now Consumer Products
21/09/2022
Any way you see it: CJEU Advocate General issues Opinion on parts of designs...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Advocate General Szpunar (AG) has delivered his Opinion in a request for a preliminary ruling by the Federal Patent Court of Germany (Bundes­pat­ent­gericht)...
Law-Now Consumer Products
22/12/2020
Design disputes: combatting copycats with a collection of IP rights – Freddy...
On 19 November 2020, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) handed down a decisive judgment in Freddy SPA v HUGZ Clothing Ltd & Ors [2020] EMHW 3032, which could see brand owners, especially...
Law-Now Consumer Products
05/02/2020
AIWA v AIWA: Trade mark risks in acquiring zombie and distressed brands
In Aiwa Co. Ltd V Aiwa Corp, the High Court held that the sale of second-hand goods with the consent of a trade mark proprietor does not suffice as "genuine use" to avoid revocation for non-use. The Aiwa...
Law-Now Intellectual Property
16/06/2015
Private property estates: Register trade marks early to avoid dis­ap­point­ment...
This article was produced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017. The Applicant, Canary Wharf Group, is the owner and developer of the Canary Wharf Estate, a large area of office and retail...
Law-Now Intellectual Property