Lewis Silkin

Firm overview:

Lewis Silkin offers a full-service practice for brands that is known for strong UK and EU trademark portfolio management, as well as disputes capability. The team combines specialist UK and EU trademark attorneys and solicitors with a dedicated formalities team for comprehensive brand management and protection. Lewis Silkin also acts on all forms of contentious IP matters, handling trademark disputes, anti-counterfeiting and unfair competition.

Team overview:

Lewis Silkin is home to a team of trademark attorneys, patent attorneys and lawyers focused on IP protection. London partner Nick Bowie is “quick, reliable” and “good to work with” according to an industry peer. Bowie specialises in the protection and enforcement of clients’ trademark and design portfolios worldwide and is particularly knowledgeable in the area of digital enforcement.

Also in the capital, Jade MacIntyre focuses her practice on brand protection and strategy, and has represented clients before registry offices as well as the UK and EU courts. Industry peers describe her as “procedurally brilliant, there’s nothing she doesn’t know about UKIPO practice”.

Key matters:

• Dryrobe v D-Robe

Lewis Silkin acted for D-Robe in its widely-discussed dispute with Dryrobe. In December 2025, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ruled that D-Robe had infringed the ‘Dryrobe’ trademark and committed passing off. The judge found that Dryrobe remained a distinctive brand name, not a generic term, with the case addressing the concept of ‘genericide’.

Clients:

D-Robe