IP and trade mark support for UK firms
Trade mark and design practices run on deadlines and volume, and both reward someone who stays. A lawyer placed through Singularity works full time inside your IP team on filing support and classification, office action responses, renewals, watch notices and infringement research.
This is one of the areas where our clients have hired more than once. They are qualified South African attorneys, working under your supervision, with anything reserved carried out by your authorised lawyers.
What the work looks like
Case and matter work
- Trade mark filing support and classification
- Responses to office actions, drafted to your house approach
- Renewals, deadline and portfolio management
- Design filings and supporting documentation
- Infringement and clearance research
- Watch notice review and reporting
Client and operational
- Client correspondence and filing updates
- Records and portfolio database upkeep
- Liaising with registries and foreign agents
- Prosecution diary management
- General fee-earner support across the filing practice
The turnover problem this solves
Trade mark practices lose good people constantly, because the role is often a stepping stone towards qualifying as an attorney or solicitor. That churn is expensive and it is felt by clients. Our placed lawyers are already qualified, want the seat they are in, and tend to stay: most of the lawyers we have placed are still in place.
How the hire works
You tell us the seat you need filled. We search our network of more than a thousand South African lawyers and put forward a small shortlist, every candidate already scrutinised and interviewed by the lawyers on our own team. You interview them and choose. The search costs you nothing, there is no recruitment fee and no lock-in, and we replace the lawyer whenever you ask, whatever the reason. Your first hire through Singularity carries thirty days at our risk: if it is not a success you pay nothing for the month, and we still pay the lawyer.
Bring the seat you are struggling to fill.
Twenty minutes, no deck, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Book a 20-minute callYour first placement starts with thirty days at our risk, not yours.