Charlene Nelson
Principal Director - Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
Career & Experience
Charlene is a Principal Director in our Intellectual Property team with over 15 years’ experience in the field.
She assists clients in navigating through the complexities of trade mark and design right registration procedures around the world and has considerable experience in managing multi-national trade mark portfolios for clients. In particular, she helps clients obtain a balanced and cost-effective portfolio of rights to enable them to support their strategic and commercial objectives and place them in the best position to avoid and resolve disputes quickly.
Charlene regularly deals with trade mark clearance searching, trade mark registration, trade mark refusals, oppositions and other cancellation actions.
Charlene works with a variety of different sized clients across different sectors and enjoys getting to know clients and understanding their businesses in order to provide targeted and bespoke advice.
Charlene is an active member of ECTA and represents the UK on the Programmes Committee. Outside of work, Charlene enjoys travelling.
Accolades
- Member of the Foot Anstey Diversity & Inclusion Action Group
- Mental Health First Aider
- First Aider
- Foot Anstey CSR Working Group Member
- Member of Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA)
- Member of European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
- Member of the Publications Committee at ECTA
- Ranked bronze for Prosecution & Strategy by World Trademark Review
Charlene Nelson
Principal Director - Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
Career & Experience
Charlene is a Principal Director in our Intellectual Property team with over 15 years’ experience in the field.
She assists clients in navigating through the complexities of trade mark and design right registration procedures around the world and has considerable experience in managing multi-national trade mark portfolios for clients. In particular, she helps clients obtain a balanced and cost-effective portfolio of rights to enable them to support their strategic and commercial objectives and place them in the best position to avoid and resolve disputes quickly.
Charlene regularly deals with trade mark clearance searching, trade mark registration, trade mark refusals, oppositions and other cancellation actions.
Charlene works with a variety of different sized clients across different sectors and enjoys getting to know clients and understanding their businesses in order to provide targeted and bespoke advice.
Charlene is an active member of ECTA and represents the UK on the Programmes Committee. Outside of work, Charlene enjoys travelling.
Accolades
- Member of the Foot Anstey Diversity & Inclusion Action Group
- Mental Health First Aider
- First Aider
- Foot Anstey CSR Working Group Member
- Member of Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA)
- Member of European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
- Member of the Publications Committee at ECTA
- Ranked bronze for Prosecution & Strategy by World Trademark Review
Expertise
- Intellectual property
- Trade mark registration
- Trade mark rejections
- Invalidation, revocations and oppositions
- Design right registration
- Clearance searching
- Brand strategy advice
