7 Rue Guimard-Guimardstraat//B-1040 Brussels//Belgium
Nick Bolter is an intellectual property partner with a focus on trademarks and designs. He represents clients in the selection, prosecution, protection, and enforcement of trademarks, brands, and designs in the United Kingdom and across Europe. His clients include some of the world’s best-known brands in retail, luxury, and apparel, as well online retailers and technology and automotive companies.
Nick is recommended in World Trademark Review’s WTR1000 2020 edition as “one of the top trademark professionals in the world” with clients describing him as “extremely energetic and client focused, and top companies trust him unequivocally—and with good reason.”
Selected Representations
A leading online retailer, a Formula One racing team, technology brands, apparel brands, and a number of early-stage businesses in the prosecution of trademarks and designs across the European Union and globally
A leading technology company in London High Court proceedings in relation to the use of trademarks in search engines
Clients in a number of sectors on global product launches
EU trademark counsel for the owner of a leading beverage brand
Awards and Affiliations
Member, International Trademark Association, Public Information Committee
Ranked, Intellectual Property, London, Chambers UK
Recommended, TMT: Intellectual Property: Trade Marks, Copyright and Design, The Legal 500 UK (2021)
Recommended, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, Brand management, The Legal 500 UK
Leading Trademark Practitioner, Enforcement and Litigation, United Kingdom: England, WTR 1000, World Trademark Review (2021)
Leading Trademark Practitioner, Prosecution and Strategy, United Kingdom: England, WTR 1000, World Trademark Review (2021)
Recommended, Trademarks, Who’s Who Legal
Admissions
England & Wales (Solicitor)
Ireland
Brussels
Education
University of Bristol, England, 2000, Diploma, Intellectual Property Law
College of Law of England and Wales, Guildford, 1997, CPE