Selection by HSBC to handle their global trade mark portfolio.
 
Frank B. Dehn's trade mark team took over responsibility, in October 2006, for the global trade mark portfolio of HSBC, following a tendering process by a team including Partners Roberto Calamita, who heads up FBD's trade mark department, and Charlotte Stirling. The HSBC trade mark portfolio comprises over a thousand cases spanning over a hundred countries worldwide. The FBD team are responsible for a full range of services relating to the HSBC portfolio, including strategy advice, clearance searches, filing and prosecution of applications, post-grant actions and related contentious matters and advice on designs.