How IP practitioners work across registrations and disputes on Vizlegal
How IP practitioners use Vizlegal to work across trademark and patent registrations and the Irish, UK, and EU courts that decide IP disputes.
An intellectual property practice runs on two clocks at once: registrations moving through the offices, and disputes moving through the courts. A practitioner may spend the morning on a trademark filing and the afternoon on a High Court action that turns on infringement, and the two are rarely in the same system. This article sets out how Vizlegal brings that work into one platform.
Registrations and the register
Vizlegal holds more than 163,000 trademark records. A practitioner can search the register alongside the rest of the platform, so a mark and any judgment, tribunal decision, or filing connected to it surface in the same query. The platform's coverage also extends to the Unified Patent Court, the forum for patent disputes across participating EU states, which keeps a developing body of patent decisions in the same place as the trademark data.
Disputes across the courts
When an IP matter becomes contested, the decision can travel: from the Irish High Court to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and, on a point of EU law, to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Vizlegal covers these together, and Case Timelines draw the procedural chain of a matter across them. For a practitioner advising on a dispute, that shows where it started, which court has dealt with it, and where it stands, without reconstructing the history by hand.
Irish and UK, side by side
IP work frequently crosses the Irish Sea. Vizlegal covers Irish courts and tribunals alongside UK courts and tribunals, with CJEU case law in the same platform. A practitioner watching how a question has been treated in more than one jurisdiction can search the relevant material in a single query rather than across separate services.
Staying current
IP practice depends on knowing when something moves: a decision on a mark being watched, a filing in a dispute being tracked. A practitioner can bookmark the matters that count and set an alert, so a development arrives by email rather than through a manual check of each source.
To see how the coverage works against the matters you handle, book a demo or get in touch at vizlegal.com/contact.