Rachel Nicholls

Director, Trade Mark Attorney

at Sonder IP

United Kingdom

About Rachel

Bio

Rachel trained and qualified as a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with one of the largest IP firms in Europe, following which she became head of trade marks at a national law firm where she established and ran the national trade mark practice before achieving a career ambition in establishing her own firm, Sonder IP, with long-standing colleague Matt. She has almost 20 years’ experience in assisting clients with the entire range of trade mark work throughout the world, including pre-filing searching, IP strategies, examination procedures, oppositions, cancellations and invalidity actions. Rachel is strategic in her approach and uses her knowledge and experience to obtain the best and most practical results for clients. Through her recent role at a large national law firm, she has been involved in a broad range of corporate and commercial deals, and has developed skills and expertise in due diligence and the IP aspects of corporate and commercial contracts, agreements, and M&A

Expertise

Rachel has experience in the following areas:

Copyright, Intellectual property (general), Intellectual property and technology, Licensing and royalty arrangements, Trademarks and service marks

Industries

Rachel has previously helped clients in the following industries:

Languages

Rachel can also speak those languages:

Sonder IP

Empowering brands with straightforward, expert IP advice tailored to their unique business needs and a fixed-fee pricing policy that is refreshingly transparent.
With almost two decades of experience at Europe’s leading IP firms, our founders Rachel Nicholls and Matt Sammon provide straightforward, expert IP advice tailored to each client’s unique business needs and goals. We cover all areas of trade mark, design and copyright law worldwide from one-off services, such as trade mark registration, to long-term strategic IP portfolio management.
Sonder IP are a new kind of IP law firm empowering more brands and businesses to proactively manage their IP rights effectively. We take an innovative approach to pricing and simply don’t charge by the clock; our fixed fee pricing policy is refreshingly flexible and transparent so you can manage your budget confidently. Sonder IP is not, and will never seek to be, a traditional law firm.