- Mark Holah
- Partner, London
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- mark.holah@ffw.com
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+44 (0)20 7861 4232
| Mark Holah is
head of the
Trade Marks and Brand Protection Group. He is dual-qualified as
a solicitor and a Registered Trade Mark Attorney.
He has wide experience in all aspects of intellectual
property, both contentious and non-contentious, with a
particular emphasis on
trade marks and
designs. His practice now focuses exclusively on brand
clearance, protection, exploitation and enforcement, both in the UK
and globally, and he helps to protect some of the world's best
known brands.
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| Mark is listed as being amongst the world's leading
trademark lawyers in the International Who's Who of Trademark
Lawyers 2011.
The publication has been taken from The International Who’s Who
of Business Lawyers. The research was based on the opinions of
hundreds of law firm clients and trade mark lawyers from around the
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He is also a member of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
(ITMA) and the International Trademark Association (INTA) and
received the first Adrian Spencer Award presented by ITMA.
Mark has been listed as a leading individual in the "Guide to
the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners". Only those
nominated by in-house counsel and their peers appear in the
guide.
The 2011 legal
directories described Mark as ‘one of the best trade mark
lawyers in London’ and said
he has ‘excellent knowledge and catches on to issues
quickly’ (The Legal 500). He was also ranked as a leading individual
in Chambers.
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Mark works for a very wide range of clients in virtually every
industry sector, especially in technology
& communications, hotels &
leisure, media,
public sector,
retail, sport and transport.
Mark has been published extensively in a wide range of
intellectual property journals and speaks regularly on trade mark
and branding issues. He has spoken at two International Trademark
Association (INTA) Annual Meetings and at two Intellectual Property
Institute of Canada (IPIC) conferences. Mark also gives revision
courses for the ITMA
examinations and lectures at the University of Cambridge
as part of its Masters of Bioscience Enterprise on IP
law.