ACID Legal Affiliates

Stevens & Bolton

About Stevens & Bolton

Stevens & Bolton is where technical excellence meets personal service. We combine expertise and commercial understanding to protect, leverage and enforce IP around the world.

From our headquarters in Guildford, we work with an extensive client base of designers, SMEs and corporate brand owners to help them secure a competitive edge.

Designs

We help you capture and protect the distinctive look of your creations, ensuring your design rights are robust and strategically aligned with your business goals.

Whether you’re protecting the look and feel of a new product or defending established design assets, we provide expert guidance to secure and maximise the value of your designs in the UK and beyond.

How we help:

  • Developing effective design protection strategies.
  • Registering designs and reviewing existing design portfolios, helping you safeguard products across key markets.
  • Assessing and enforcing design rights and copyright, from addressing potential infringements to managing full‑scale disputes and negotiation strategies.
  • Supporting commercial exploitation, including licensing, collaborations and practical steps to maximise the value of protected designs.

Services Offered

  • Design & Trade Mark Registrations
  • IP Enforcement & Brand Protection
  • IP Dispute Resolution
  • IP Licensing, Transactions & Franchising
  • IP Audits, Due Diligence & Valuation
  • Company Secretarial & Shareholder Advice
  • Employment Law & Data Protection
  • Commercial Contracts & Technology
  • Corporate Advisory & Transactions/M&A
  • Real Estate

Tom Lingard

Partner

Tom is Head of Intellectual Property and works with clients to commercialise innovation, enforce their IP rights and protect their reputations. He helps them to build and protect value in their IP and brands, and to navigate and resolve disputes in the UK and internationally. Tom has represented clients from across the world to bring and defend claims in the UK for design right, copyright, trade mark and patent infringement; breach of confidence; and defamation.

Elaine O’Hare

Partner

Elaine is Head of Brand Protection, Luxury and Fashion. She works with brands to build, protect and enforce their IP rights, focusing on proactive brand strategy, designing global protection, licensing and commercialisation programmes tailored to their needs. Elaine has brought and defended scores of claims for design right, copyright and trade mark infringement on behalf of clients ranging from listed entities to start-ups.

Kate Hamson-Maguire

Senior Associate

Kate helps clients protect, commercialise and enforce their valuable IP rights. She provides strategic advice on protection, enforcement and exploitation – helping businesses balance commercial and legal considerations to build successful brands and accelerate innovation. Kate’s expertise includes brand management, infringement disputes, licensing and acquisitions.

Jessica Gregson

Associate

Jess supports clients in realising and protecting the value of their IP, advising on portfolio management and licensing, brand protection, infringements and dispute resolution. She has a particular interest in protecting the creative works and designs that define the fashion and luxury industries.

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Main Branch Details

Stevens & Bolton LLP
Wey House
Farnham Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 4YD
United Kingdom