Greaves Brewster
Firm overview:
Southwest firm Greaves Brewster has built a robust, growing trademark practice, particularly valued by life sciences clients for its prosecution and portfolio management expertise. The firm handles trademark filing, licensing, and pre-litigation advice. Its attorneys successfully manage registry disputes before the UK and EU Intellectual Property Offices, often achieving results against larger competitors. Additionally, the team integrates patent expertise to provide comprehensive, technical advice for brand owners.
Team overview:
Greaves Brewster’s head office is located in Cheddar, Somerset, with many of its team members working remotely across the UK—enabling the firm to offer its services at a reasonable cost as its overheads are low. The firm maintains a clear set of values that prioritise ethics, and encourages its staff to work on matters that are “valuable and intellectually stimulating, as well as financially rewarding”.
Director and trademark attorney Corinna Hiscox protects and manages trademarks worldwide, co-ordinating with the firm’s international network. With over 25 years’ experience, she has particular expertise in the filing and prosecution of trademark applications before the UK, EU and Irish Intellectual Property Offices.
Alongside Hiscox is fellow attorney Thomasin Procter, who joined the team in 2024. Procter brings experience from working at three other ranked law firms, including Bird & Bird.
Key matters:
- Moderna: Trademark filing and prosecution
Greaves Brewster assists COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Moderna with UK trademark services, including filing around 50 applications in the year ending March 2026.
- Polyvine: Trademark portfolio management
The team helped Polyvine secure registration of one of its key brands, ‘Decorators Varnish’ in the UK, on the basis of acquired distinctiveness.
A family-owned business based in Cheddar, the company manufactures coatings, varnishes and paints, which it sells internationally.
- Wickwar Wessex Pub Company: Trademark registrations
Wickwar Wessex Pub Company operates a chain of pubs in the South West of the UK. Greaves Brewster advises the company on the maintenance of its trademark portfolio.
The work has included successfully applying for amendment of five UK registered trademarks at the UKIPO, to update the trademarks used on the pump clips in Wickwar Wessex’s pubs, to change the references to the old owner’s name.
Clients:
adp Merkur, Ariceum Therapeutics, Arnold & Porter, Ashville Asset Management, Barzanò & Zanardo Milano, Epstein Drangel, Goonvean, The Hereford Cattle Society, Imspex Diagnostics, Kemin Industries, Leviat, Moderna, Nyemaster Goode, Polsinelli, Polyvine, The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, acting through the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), The University of Hull, ZBM Patents
