IP & Law Firms

One operating backbone for complex jurisdictions, delivered through your firm

The challenge

Law firms and IP firms often need to support clients in jurisdictions where execution, compliance, quality control and local coordination are difficult to manage through traditional correspondent relationships.

The risk is not only operational. It can affect client confidence, professional standards and firm reputation.

The CWB Model

CWB operates behind the firm as an embedded execution and governance layer.

The firm retains client ownership, strategic advice and commercial control. CWB manages local execution, compliance controls, financial administration, reporting, escalation and quality oversight across the relevant jurisdictions.

What You Get

  • One operating relationship
  • One integrated execution team
  • Centralised risk, compliance and quality controls
  • Transparent reporting and escalation
  • Local execution through CWB's regional footprint
  • Support without disintermediating the firm
  • Scalable coverage without building local infrastructure

The Result

Law firms and IP firms can serve clients confidently across complex jurisdictions while preserving client ownership, advisory control and professional standards.

One trusted partner. One operating backbone.

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All 3 engagement models powered by 4 pillars.

  • Technology

    Renaissance connects the systems, data and workflows supporting service delivery across CWB. Jarvis introduces governed intelligence into approved processes, helping our teams coordinate work, manage information and deliver consistently across jurisdictions. 

  • Governance

    One operating model, central standards, defined escalation routes and clear accountability. 

  • Compliance

    CWB's Integrity Framework supports how we accept clients and matters, manage conflicts, address financial crime and sanctions risk, protect information, oversee third parties and govern the responsible use of technology and AI. Common controls, defined responsibilities and clear escalation routes help us deliver services consistently across diverse legal and regulatory environments. 

  • Quality

    Standardised workflows, review points, audit trails and central oversight designed to deliver consistent international-standard quality across complex jurisdictions. 

One integrated practice. Five specialist service lines.

Whichever model a client or partner engages through, the underlying work is the same. CWB delivers five specialist service lines across 100+ jurisdictions, each run as a dedicated practice with its own operating logic, quality standards and deadline discipline. This single block of practice content serves all three engagement models, it is not duplicated per model.

Trade marks & Copyright

CWB protects and enforces brand assets across 100+ jurisdictions: from clearing a new mark to registering it, defending it, and keeping ownership records accurate as portfolios evolve. Every step is run through standardised workflows, so brand owners get the same standard of protection in every market.

Availability searches & clearance

Pre-filing searches and clearance advice to assess registrability and avoid conflicts before a mark is adopted or filed. 

Filings

National, regional and Madrid (international) trade mark applications, prepared and filed to meet local requirements across all covered jurisdictions. 

Prosecution

Managing applications through to registration, including responding to office actions, examination reports and official objections.

Oppositions & disputes

Oppositions, cancellations, appeals and contentious proceedings to challenge or defend a mark before IP offices and tribunals.

Renewals

Trade mark renewals processed across jurisdictions to keep registered marks in force, run jointly with our dedicated IP Renewals & Maintenance practice.

Recordals

Recording assignments, licences, mergers and changes of name or address to keep ownership and register details current, run jointly with the IP Renewals & Maintenance practice.

Copyright

Advisory support alongside the protection, enforcement, registration, and deposit of creative works where locally applicable.

Patents & Designs

CWB secures and maintains protection for inventions and industrial designs in technically and procedurally demanding jurisdictions. Filings and prosecution are handled by specialists and supported centrally, ensuring technical accuracy and strict deadline discipline wherever the work is done.

Application drafting & preparation

Drafting and preparation of patent specifications, claims and drawings, including new and PCT/priority applications, tailored to each jurisdiction's technical and formal requirements.

Filings

National, regional and PCT national-phase patent applications, prepared and filed in compliance with all local formal and technical requirements.

Prosecution

Managing the examination process through to grant, including responses to examination reports and substantive office actions.

Validations

Validating granted patents (e.g. regional grants) into individual jurisdictions to bring protection into force locally.

Industrial designs

Registration and protection of industrial designs, including filings, prosecution and renewals.

Recordals

Recording assignments, changes of ownership, licences and other register updates to maintain an accurate chain of title, run jointly with our dedicated IP Renewals & Maintenance practice.

Annuity payments

Annuity and maintenance-fee payments, run jointly with the IP Renewals & Maintenance practice.

Anti-Counterfeiting & Enforcement

CWB defends rights both on the ground and online by combining local investigators, strategic law enforcement partnerships, and coordinated legal action to disrupt counterfeiting and infringement. Enforcement is centrally governed, ensuring evidence, escalation and outcomes are handled to a consistent standard across all markets.

Investigations & surveillance

Market investigations, test purchases and ongoing surveillance to identify counterfeiters, infringers and supply routes.

Customs & border enforcement

Customs recordals and border-measure applications to detain and seize infringing goods at points of entry.

Raids & seizures

Coordinating raids, seizures and joint actions with police, customs and government authorities.

Enforcement actions

Lodging complaints with regulatory authorities and pursuing administrative, civil and criminal enforcement proceedings against infringers through to resolution.

Online takedowns 

Removal of infringing listings and content from marketplaces, platforms and websites. 

Evidence & case building

Securing and preserving evidence and building enforcement case files to support successful administrative, civil and criminal action.

IP Renewals & Maintenance

CWB keeps IP rights alive, ensuring trade marks, patents, and designs are reliably maintained at scale and never lost to a missed date. Our centralised docketing tracks deadlines via automated systems and layered escalation, while every renewal instruction and confirmation is stored as an auditable record. We seamlessly coordinate local offices and agents where filing or payment must be made locally, delivering clear portfolio updates that provide complete visibility into your entire asset lifecycle.

Renewals

Trade mark, patent and design renewals filed across jurisdictions to keep registered rights in force.

Annuity payments

Payment of annuities and maintenance fees to the relevant offices within statutory deadlines.

Recordals

Recording assignments, licences, mergers and changes of name or address to keep ownership and register details current.

Restorations & reinstatements

Restoring lapsed rights and making late payments within available grace and restoration periods to bring registrations back into force.

Lingua

Lingua is CWB's dedicated IP translation service, delivering technically and legally accurate translations that support the filing and enforcement of IP rights across different jurisdictions and regions. Lingua combines subject-matter specialists with translation technology and mandatory human review checkpoints, producing quality-reviewed output across multiple language pairs, scaled to filing volumes, so terminology and quality stay consistent across languages and jurisdictions.

Patent & technical translation

Translation of patent specifications and technical documents by subject-matter-qualified linguists.

Trade mark & legal translation

Translation of trade mark, legal and contractual documents for prosecution and enforcement use.

Certified translations

Certified and official translations meeting local filing and evidentiary requirements.

Terminology & classification

Nice Classification support and terminology controls to ensure accurate, consistent goods-and-services descriptions across all target languages.