Our People
Carin Burchell set up and manages Re:Markability is a European Trade Mark Attorney resident in Germany and is also an Irish Registered Trade Mark Attorney qualified to practise before the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland, and a UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorney.
After Carin took her LLB at Queen Mary, University of London, she trained to become a trade mark attorney with two well established firms in London and passed the qualifying exams in 1985. She then went to Hong Kong where she worked with a leading law firm as a trade mark attorney including handling some of the earliest trade mark registrations under the then new filing system of the PRC. After three years, Carin returned to the UK and became a director of the trade mark legal arm of a well-known brand agency and later helped to set up the trade mark registration practice at a large firm of Leeds based solicitors before establishing her own UK practice, BRANDED! in 1995.
Eric acts of Counsel to Re:Markability Limited. He joined the profession in 1969 and qualified in 1972. He is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney holding a Higher Courts Certificate as a litigator with many years as a professional representative before the EU IPO. Eric who is very experienced in all aspects of securing, enforcing and defending domain names, as well as trade marks, and design rights was invited to join the Policy Advisory Board of Nominet UK (the registry of .uk domain names) when it was set up in 1999 and was its Chair between 2006 and 2010.
He is a former Chair of the Joint Examining Board for entry onto the registers of patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys, and was a lecturer and tutor on the Nottingham Law School Professional Certificate in Trade Mark Practice for several years. Eric is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and has acted for many high profile clients and took a number of cases on appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union. For many years before joining Re:Markability Limited he headed up the highly regarded practice of Alexander Ramage Associates LLP.