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.”
Highly Recommended, Contentious, UK Trademark Rankings, World Intellectual Property Review (2024)
Member, International Trademark Association, Public Information Committee
Global Leader, World Trademark Review (2022, 2023)
Ranked, Intellectual Property, London, Chambers UK (2021, 2022, 2024)
Ranked, Intellectual Property, UK, Chambers Global (2022–2024)
Recommended, Intellectual property: Copyright, The Legal 500 US (2021)
Recommended, Intellectual property: Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing), The Legal 500 US (2021)
Recommended, TMT: Intellectual Property: Trademarks, Copyright and Design, The Legal 500 UK (2021–2025)
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 (2021–2024)
Leading Trademark Practitioner, Prosecution and Strategy, United Kingdom: England, WTR 1000, World Trademark Review (2021–2024)
Recognized, IP Trademark Star – United Kingdom (England), Managing Intellectual Property (2020–2024)
Recommended, Trademarks, Who’s Who Legal