Thomas Hooper

Thomas Hooper is a Senior Associate in Bird & Bird’s Intellectual Property team in London, focusing on Trademark Law. He has over 15 years’ experience in intellectual property and brand protection.

He helps clients build, exploit, enforce and rationalise portfolios of trade mark and design rights around the world, and also handles related disputes and contentious proceedings.

His experience includes advising on all aspects of international brand protection and portfolio management. He works with a range of clients, from start-ups to well-established international brands, assisting with their global clearance and protection strategies using national and international trade mark and design systems.

He specialises in global rebranding, trade mark filing, opposition and cancellation proceedings before the UK Intellectual Property Office and the EU Intellectual Property Office, and all aspects of trade mark and design enforcement. This includes regularly conducting advocacy before the UK Intellectual Property Office, and managing opposition, cancellation and related proceedings that run in parallel with litigation or form part of the same proceedings.

He advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including technology and communications, retail and consumer, life sciences and healthcare, energy and utilities, and financial services.

He regularly delivers training and writes on intellectual property matters. He is an author and co-editor of The CITMA & CIPA Trade Mark Handbook, published by Sweet & Maxwell, and a co-editor of Contentious Trade Mark Registry Proceedings (Volumes 1 and 2) and Anti-Counterfeiting Practice and Procedure.

He sits on CITMA’s Pro Bono and Publications Working Groups, is a member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group, and serves as a case volunteer with the IP Pro Bono Scheme.

He also advises clients in relation to domain names, company names, certification and collective marks, geographical indications, and anti-counterfeiting matters, including customs enforcement.