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Louise Gellman

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Pośniak i Bejm sp.k.
Varso Tower
Chmielna 69
00-801 Warsaw
Poland
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Louise is a Partner in our Intellectual Property (IP) team. She handles a range of IP matters for her established corporate clients. She specialises in trade mark law, advising in relation to the protection, exploitation and enforcement of trade mark rights.

Louise prosecutes UK and EU trade mark applications and using the Madrid Protocol system, and has a busy oppositions practice. She advises clients in relation to worldwide and European re-branding projects, and has considerable experience in running trade mark clearances and managing the subsequent filing programmes and international portfolios. She also provides strategic advice to brand owners regarding ownership and licensing structures and policing and enforcement. She often gets involved in transactional work, advising on the intellectual property aspects of corporate, banking and real estate transactions. Some of these deals involve large portfolios of rights and Louise manages the subsequent recordal programmes.

Post-Brexit, Louise will continue to hold representation and audience rights before the EUIPO and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Louise is English and Irish qualified, and she will operate her EU trade mark and design practice from our Polish office.

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Louise Gellman is “an excellent communicator and strategist” whose practical and commercial style ensures fantastic outcomes. “Approachable and thorough, she takes the time to really understand clients’ businesses. She’s so reliable – just phenomenal to work with.”

WTR 1000, 2020

"Louise Gellman is a repository of trust for marquee names when it comes to international portfolio management and contentious work… Gellman is completely unpretentious; she cares about her clients and understands their need for efficiency and for keeping costs down."

World Trademark Review, 2019

"The resident non-contentious specialist is Louise Gellman, a savvy prosecutor with a busy opposition practice at home and abroad. “She is a tenacious lawyer who serves well with her commercial and pragmatic approach. She is an excellent communicator regarding client tasks, deadlines and strategy.”"

2017 WTR 1000 Guide to Leading Trademark Professionals

Relevant experience

  • Clients include eBay, Deluxe Entertainment, Merisant, EFG Group, Eurobank, The Crown Estate, Costco, Kettle Chips, Hammerson plc, the Vitec Group and Samsonite.
  • Deluxe Entertainment on an appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union,
  • Dealing with a successful appeal to the Supreme Court in Spain in relation to an EU wide injunction,
  • Successful appeals to the Appointed Person in the UK.
  • Advising on the IP aspects of a variety of corporate, banking and property transactions.
  • Liberty Living and Global Student Accommodation on significant IP aspects of transactions involving various branded portfolios of student accommodation.
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Memberships & Roles

  • Louise chaired INTA's Madrid System subcommittee for four years, was an active member of the Famous and Well-Known Marks and Pro Bono committees. She is now active on the Trade Mark Office Practices (Europe) committee
  • Marques: Geographical Indications Team.
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Education

  • 1992 – BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & Economics (University of York)
  • 1993/4 – Law Conversion and Legal Practice Course (London Guildhall University)
  • 1999 – Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (University of Bristol)
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23/03/2022
To file or not to file? Trade mark pro­tec­tion in the meta­verse
Wheth­er you’re fa­mil­i­ar with the term or hear­ing it for the first time, many glob­al brands have be­gun to con­sider the im­plic­a­tions that the meta­verse might have on their IP. There are, seem­ingly, bound­less...
17/02/2022
Prop­erty man­ager not li­able for in­fringe­ment of com­pet­it­or’s trade mark
In a re­cent de­cision the In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty En­ter­prise Court found that a prop­erty man­age­ment com­pany us­ing a sim­il­ar sign to an­oth­er prop­erty man­age­ment com­pany’s trade mark, in re­la­tion to ser­vices...
06/12/2021
Brexit-re­lated, non-com­pli­ant .eu do­main names to be re­voked from 1 Janu­ary...
EUR­id has con­firmed that it will re­voke all Brexit-re­lated, non-com­pli­ant .eu do­main names on 1 Janu­ary 2022, with these do­main names be­ing sub­sequently re­leased in batches. If a re­gis­trant wishes to...
16/09/2021
Brexit – 30 Septem­ber 2021 dead­line: Win­dow to re-file your pending EU...
As of 1 Janu­ary 2021, EU Trade Marks (EUTMs) and Re­gistered European Designs (RCDs) no longer ex­tend to the UK. EUTMs and RCDs which were re­gistered on 31 Decem­ber 2020 now en­joy pro­tec­tion in the...
27/07/2021
Brexit – what next for .eu do­main names for UK hold­ers?
From 1 Janu­ary 2021, or­gan­isa­tions, busi­nesses or un­der­tak­ings es­tab­lished in the UK (but not in the EU), and in­di­vidu­als who lived out­side the EU and were not EU cit­izens, be­came un­able to hold, re­gister...
01/07/2021
Brexit - Have you re-filed your pending EU Trade Mark and Design Ap­plic­a­tions...
As of 1 Janu­ary 2021, EU Trade Marks (EUTMs) and Re­gistered European Designs (RCDs) no longer ex­tend to the UK. EUTMs and RCDs which were re­gistered on 31 Decem­ber 2020 now en­joy pro­tec­tion in the UK...
26/03/2021
Body­con be­ware: how passing off fails boutique fash­ion
Sum­mary In Ori­gin­al Beauty Tech­no­logy Co Ltd and oth­er v G4K Fash­ion Ltd and oth­er, Dav­id Stone (sit­ting as Deputy High Court Judge) ruled that the de­fend­ant had in­fringed the claimants’ un­re­gistered...
17/02/2021
Evolving your brand strategy in a chan­ging world
COV­ID-19 has promp­ted busi­nesses to ad­apt both the goods and ser­vices they of­fer and also the way these goods and ser­vices are pro­moted and provided to cus­tom­ers. Many are em­bark­ing on col­lab­or­a­tions...
12/02/2021
‘It’s like milk but made for hu­mans’: Gen­er­al Court over­turns EUIPO’s re­fus­al...
On 20 Janu­ary 2021, the Gen­er­al Court (“GC”) handed down its judg­ment in the ap­peal brought by Oatly AB (“Oatly”) against the de­cision of the EU In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Of­fice (“EUIPO”) to re­fuse...
23/12/2020
Brexit - are you pre­pared? UK Trade Mark pro­ceed­ings filed on or after...
The UK left the EU at the be­gin­ning of this year and the trans­ition peri­od dur­ing which the UK is treated as if it was still a mem­ber of the EU is com­ing to an end on 31 Decem­ber 2020, 11pm (UK time). ...
22/12/2020
Brexit - are you pre­pared? Pending UK Trade Mark pro­ceed­ings: 3 key points...
The UK left the EU at the be­gin­ning of this year and the trans­ition peri­od dur­ing which the UK is treated as if it was still a mem­ber of the EU is com­ing to an end on 31 Decem­ber 2020, 11pm (UK time)...
16/12/2020
Brexit - are you pre­pared? Trade marks: 3 key points to re­mem­ber
The UK left the EU at the be­gin­ning of this year and the trans­ition peri­od dur­ing which the UK is treated as if it was still a mem­ber of the EU is com­ing to an end on 31 Decem­ber 2020, 11pm (UK time)...