About Us
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Brandstrike is a brand protection services company. Our goal is to help companies to achieve a more integrated approach to brand protection. By taking a more integrated approach they can more effectively deal with brand abuse by spotting and preventing issues earlier. The result is less revenue and reputation lost due to the consequences of brand abuse. We are members of The Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and the International Trademark Association (INTA).
We are unique in offering services that start at the brand clearance stage and carry on through to domain name/trademark registration, monitoring, infringement investigation and enforcement in over 200 countries/territories. To support these services we have an easy to use IP Management solution and product authentication technologies for supply chain tracking.
Clients range in size from start-ups to multi-billion pound global brands. We operate across all industry sectors and offer specific brand protection packages for start-ups and small and medium size enterprises.
We have the largest associate law firm network in the world spanning over 200 countries/territories. This enables us to investigate and enforce our client’s rights wherever abuse is detected.
Our client’s benefit from Brandstrike being at the forefront of developments in brand protection whether it is new intellectual property regimes like South Sudan or the latest product authentication technologies.
Due to our global reach and depth of services we regularly work with law firms to augment their client services.
We have recently become a publisher of IP Guides. The first one is called Guide to Trademark Registrations in European Dependent Territories. The Guide is used by hundreds of law firms worldwide and many well-known brands. A number of Intellectual Property Offices around the world also use it including in the UK. The Guide is available in hard copy at the British Library Business and IP Centre.
Brandstrike is the owner of OBSCURE IP, a LinkedIn Group. It focuses on intellectual property in the less well known parts of the world. Members include hundreds of law firms and many well-known brands.
Profiles
 Damian Croker is a frequent speaker on the UK Intellectual Property Office event circuit and presenter of the Creating Brand Value session on their IP Masterclass course. Author of the Guide to Registering Trademarks in European Dependent Territories. He represents Brandstrike at The Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and the International Trademark Association (INTA). Damian has the World Intellectual Property Organisation General Certificate in Intellectual Property. Prior to Brandstrike he worked for MarkMonitor. Damian is CEO of Brandstrike.
 Richard Kohn is the former Marketing Director at SCA Hygiene, Global Brand Director Sodastream and Chief Marketing Officer, Europe RR Donnally. He is Managing Director of The Marchitect, a branding consultancy. Before entering marketing Richard trained as a solicitor and became a partner in Howard Kennedy law firm. He has a law degree from London School of Economics and an MBA from Leicester. Richard sits on Brandstrike’s Advisory Board responsible for brand and marketing.
 Donal O’Connell was formerly the Intellectual Property Rights Director and VP R&D at Nokia. He is a part time Professor at Imperial College London and Managing Director of Chewton Innovation Services, an intellectual property consultancy. Donal is the author of Inside the Patent Factory and Harvesting External Innovation. He is a well-known speaker on the international Intellectual Property conference circuit and has numerous articles published on IP Management. He has a degree in Engineering from Limerick University. Donal sits on Brandstrike’s Advisory Board responsible for Intellectual Property Management and Consultancy.
David Haigh is the CEO and founder of Brand Finance plc. David qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in London. He worked in international financial management then moved into the marketing services sector, firstly as the Financial Director of The Creative Business and then as Financial Director of WCRS & Partners. He left to set up a financial marketing consultancy, which was later acquired by Publicis, the pan European marketing services group, where he worked as a director for five years.
David moved to Interbrand as Director of Brand Valuation in its London-based global brand valuation practice, leaving in 1996 to launch Brand Finance. David has represented the British Standards institute on the International Standards Committee working party on the standardisation of brand valuation methods and practices, whose draft standard (ISO 10668) was published in November 2010.
David has written many articles for the marketing and financial press on branded businesses and brand valuation and is the author of numerous publications. He also lectures on the subject of branded business, brand and intangible asset valuation at many of the leading business schools around the world. David sits on Brandstrike’s Advisory Board.
Bharat Dube is the founder and chief executive of IP Gurus. Prior to this, Bharat headed the litigation and enforcement team of Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods maker, for almost two decades. At Richemont, Bharat was particularly responsible for the Group's two principal brands, Cartier and Montblanc. He led the effort to successfully obtain trade dress protection for the shapes of several iconic Cartier watches (including the Pasha and Tank American), Montblanc's Starwalker pens, and the 'Three Ring' trademark featured on Montblanc's Meisterstuck range in the United States. He has appeared as an expert witness in court proceedings in Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Earlier, Bharat worked with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva. Bharat is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic, Harvard University (A.B.magna cum laude, 1983) and Duke Law School (J.D., 1986). He has lectured extensively at IP symposia around the world, including events sponsored by the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the International Trademark Association, WIPO and various bar associations. Bharat sits on Brandstrike’s Advisory Board.
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17/01/2013
Brandstrike is at IP Protect 2013 in London. Come and visit our stand ...»
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17/01/2013
Brandstrike's CEO is a guest speaker at Imperial College London. On th...»
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28/09/2012
Brandstrike is at GSS Istanbul. Damian Croker is speaking about an hol...»
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