We can best advise on brands because of our unparalleled breadth of services that we call Intangible Asset Management.
- Creation
- Protection
- Resolution
- Monetisation
- Optimisation
We make sure that great IP is not ruined by a bad contract. Bad contracts risk creating big disputes – we help you avoid them.
Creative management for your creative IP. Designs and copyright are at the heart of effective intangible asset management. And if things go wrong, brands suffer.
We take a disruptive approach to disputes. We look to democratise brand protection – and we deliver it by deploying the full range of dispute resolution capabilities to each client’s specific circumstance – fitting their brand needs and their budgets.
Strategy first, Straight up IP. Without strategy, there's no clarity. It’s hard to know what to prioritise. What to own. How to protect what is owned.
As originality obsessives, we support creators. Structuring brands mean protecting brand against operational risks and supporting them to maximize their value.
We help you align and retain consistency across brands, trade marks, domains and blockchain domains.
We build an anti-counterfeiting monitoring and enforcement strategy around a deep understanding of your brand and your business needs, saving you time, money and worry.
Brands are often the highest-value asset of a company, and without this insight, in-house legal teams often struggle to justify the necessary investment to maximise that brand value.
Done well, brand extension / licensing is a great way to grow revenue and strengthen the brand. But done badly, it can destroy brands. We take a disruptive approach to the industry with a brand- rather than deal-focused approach.
At Stobbs, technology and innovation underpins everything we do. We are constantly finding new and better ways to improve our solutions, setting the standard for our sector.
No-nonsense protection from imitators and infringers. Stobbs builds bespoke Brand Protection programmes to match the specific demands and budget envelopes of each client.
All aspects of trade mark portfolio management – renewals, recordals, docketing, searching and clearances, watching – and our role with the Amazon IP Accelerator and Amazon Brand Registry.
When it comes to developing creative ideas to solve commercial or cultural challenges, we're proud to partner with Heavenly. Together, we deliver a seamless, consolidated creative and IP service.
Patents give you the exclusive right to exploit your invention. Or if you prefer, the ability to grant that right to someone else through a license. When it comes to patents, we’re proud to partner with the best in the industry - EIP.
Want to know where you stand in the market? Or where you stack up vs. the vision of where you want to be? Our comprehensive strategy and benchmarking evaluation gives you that insight and helps you get there.
Bespoke and cost-effective support and expertise for growing or disrupted legal teams. Our team has the flexibility, credentials, expertise, experience and fit to support you.
With Stobbs, you get your own virtual intelligence officer - experienced ex-law enforcement professionals specialising in surveillance and cyber-crime. This capability represents government-grade intelligence from the street corners to the dark web.
Benefits
We blend the right combination of these functions to drive 5 key benefits for our clients:
Creation
The process of bringing an IP asset (brand, image, technology, platform, idea) to life so that it can grow and thrive in-line with the organization that created it.
Protection
The legal and administrative armour that allows originality in any setting to flourish, including the investigation of current rights holders and management of the associated risk
- Commercial Contracts
- Designs + Copyright
- Trade Marks
- IP Consultancy
- Virtual GC
- Patents
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Domains
- Trade Mark Administration
- Brand Protection
Resolution
Solving legal challenges with brands in the most practical and commercial way possible – both of anticipation of – and in response to – the actions of negative agents.
- Disputes + Litigation
- Virtual GC
- IP Consultancy
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Trade Marks
- Commercial Contracts
- Investigations
- Trade Mark Administration
- Brand Protection
Monetisation
Recognising the value of brands – enabling the correct investment in brands (often the highest value asset in a company) and capitalizing on that asset value of brands to create revenue streams and further strengthen the brand (from an awareness, breadth and reputation perspective).
Optimisation
Managing brands and portfolios in the most effective way – through systems, processes, strategy, policies (and associated capability building) – with consideration for portfolio strength, competitive position, market forces / threats and structuring / tax.
Our Partners
Maximising brand protection and value often means piecing together fragmented services from different firms.
150+
We work with over 150 firms of industry-leading experts worldwide. Whichever firms we choose, we are your Strategic Partner.
Stobbs Group Partners
Obviously make siloed information, unintegrated tools, and manual processes a thing of the past. Using data-driven decision-making and AI tools, Obviously helps you stay one step ahead in your mission to protect what matters most – your brand.
Created and incubated in Stobbs, Obviously is a step-change in legal tech across it’s Discover, Protect and Manage platforms.
Valuation Consulting is a UK based, leading provider of business and intangible asset valuation services globally.
VC is trusted by some of the world’s best-known brands in bringing understanding and transparency to the valuation of their businesses, intangible assets and IP. Valuation Consulting is uncluttered by the need or desire to offer tax, legal advice or audit services and is trusted by lawyers, accountants and commercial organisations worldwide as objective third-party valuers.
VC provides clients with real insight, deep understanding, and practical guidance – helping them to leverage the true value of their business and intangible assets.
Valuation Consulting takes a practical approach, guiding our clients through the grey: fresh and focused; independent and insightful; hands-on and to-the-point.
Brand Intelligence is a team of IP specialists and experienced investigators.
Their investigators are experienced ex-law enforcement professionals specialising in surveillance and cyber crime. This capability represents government-grade intelligence from the street corners to the dark web.
They speak the right language and follow the right procedures. Our technical experts know their way around the darkest corners of the dark web.
Founders Law is an award-winning law firm powering the hyper-ambitious from idea to exit and we are excited to support them on delivering IP solutions to their clients, whilst they support ours with additional legal services sitting outside of the IP world.
Founders Law offer practical, commercial legal advice tailored to fast-growing businesses at every stage of their journey by acting as an extension of their client’s team.
Obviously make siloed information, unintegrated tools, and manual processes a thing of the past. Using data-driven decision-making and AI tools, Obviously helps you stay one step ahead in your mission to protect what matters most – your brand.
Created and incubated in Stobbs, Obviously is a step-change in legal tech across it’s Discover, Protect and Manage platforms.
External Partners
EIP is Better, different™
We advise on high-value and complex patents. Our litigators and patent attorneys have first-hand experience of impactful cases, a reputation for sheer tenacity and an astute team of commercial IP lawyers on top.
Located in key strategic markets, we offer German precision, Swedish collaborativity, legal tradition from the UK and the USA's dynamism.
Looking for the sharpest eye on searching, watching, analyzing and reporting?
Fovea IP is the global IP search & watch platform - relevant, responsive and reasonably priced.
Com Laude is a global domain name specialist providing support to enable you to take control of domain names, secure your online presence and address digital brand infringement.
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We are in the business of generous ideas.
At the heart of our brand is the concept of energizing ideas. Ideas that create long-lasting and impactful energy.
We think about brands holistically. Beginning with the foundational idea. Then how that idea is expressed visually, verbally through tone of voice, and vocally through voice-activated devices. Even how a brand smells, through osmic identity.
EIP is Better, different™
We advise on high-value and complex patents. Our litigators and patent attorneys have first-hand experience of impactful cases, a reputation for sheer tenacity and an astute team of commercial IP lawyers on top.
Located in key strategic markets, we offer German precision, Swedish collaborativity, legal tradition from the UK and the USA's dynamism.