Solicitor at McDaniels Law
Kelly Hudson
Solicitor - Director
SRA ID: 461430
Kelly graduated from Northumbria University with a first class honours degree in Law. She joined McDaniels Law in 2008 as a Trainee Solicitor and remained with the firm following qualification. She is now a Director specialising in Intellectual Property. Kelly is CITMA and IPREG accredited. Kelly has experience across a range of IP matters, particularly in Trade Mark, Copyright and Design matters. This work includes both dealing with protection strategies and also enforcement and litigation matters having conducted cases on clients’ behalf in the Court of Appeal, High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Kelly has significant experience in Trade Mark matters including filing and prosecution of UK, CTM, foreign and Madrid trade mark applications, trade mark opposition and cancellation proceedings. In July 2015 Kelly dual qualified as a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, further expanding her IP expertise. Kelly has a good commercial focus and is able to identify and assist in meeting clients' actual business needs. This enables her to give structured legal advice with a clear commercial focus. Previously, Kelly worked on secondment one day per week with a major UK fashion brand over a three year period and therefore has a significant understanding of brand management and development issues.
Northern Design Centre, Abbotts Hill, Baltic Business Quarter, Gateshead, NE8 3DF
Licensed for 14 years
Practice Areas
IT & Intellectual Property, Company & Commercial
- IT & Intellectual Property 70%
- Company & Commercial 30%
7 Client Reviews
Overall experience
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- Approachability
About Kelly Hudson
Kelly graduated from Northumbria University with a first class honours degree in Law. She joined McDaniels Law in 2008 as a Trainee Solicitor and remained with the firm following qualification. She is now a Director specialising in Intellectual Property. Kelly is CITMA and IPREG accredited. Kelly has experience across a range of IP matters, particularly in Trade Mark, Copyright and Design matters. This work includes both dealing with protection strategies and also enforcement and litigation matters having conducted cases on clients’ behalf in the Court of Appeal, High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Kelly has significant experience in Trade Mark matters including filing and prosecution of UK, CTM, foreign and Madrid trade mark applications, trade mark opposition and cancellation proceedings. In July 2015 Kelly dual qualified as a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, further expanding her IP expertise. Kelly has a good commercial focus and is able to identify and assist in meeting clients' actual business needs. This enables her to give structured legal advice with a clear commercial focus. Previously, Kelly worked on secondment one day per week with a major UK fashion brand over a three year period and therefore has a significant understanding of brand management and development issues.
Languages Spoken: English
Contact Kelly Hudson
Address
McDaniels Law
Northern Design Centre
Abbotts Hill
Baltic Business Quarter
Gateshead
NE8 3DF
Phone 0191 499 8471
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Country
Status
Acquired
Updated
United Kingdom
Currently Registered
16/08/10
21/09/23
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What I like about McDaniels is their clear and sensible approach. Unlike some solicitors I have used, they are very commercially aware and as such offer balanced advice. There is no mysterious legal "fog" and it feels like Kelly and her team really understand our business and wider industry as a whole.
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
A representative from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 27 November, 2023
Thank you for your review. We appreciate the positive feedback you have given us and look forward to working with you in the future.
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Simply the best
The service and advice I received was first class, Kelly and the team at Mc Law were brilliant, definitely glad they was on my side representing me.
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
A representative from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 28 April, 2023
Dear Ben, Thank you so much for your 5-star review. We are delighted to hear that you were happy with the service Kelly and the team provided. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Kind regards, The team at Mcdaniel & Co. Limited
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Highly Recommend
McDaniels were recommended to me by another small business and they did not disappoint. Kelly and Molly were great, kept me well informed and have a great overall level of knowledge in their field of expertise which helped the "small girls" win against the "big boys" in this instance. Our outcome was better than I initially anticipated and I couldn't be more pleased. Would definitely use again and have already recommended them multiple times to other small businesses in need of help with IP infringement.
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
A representative from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 06 April, 2023
Thank you for your fantastic review, Jo. We are so pleased that you were happy with the service provided and the outcome achieved. We will ensure your kind comments are passed onto Molly & Kelly. Thanks again for your recommendation and we would be delighted to work with you again, should you require any assistance in the future. Best Wishes, the team at McDaniels Law.
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IP Audit
We needed an intellectual property audit carried out and Kelly at McDaniels was recommended to us. We were delighted with the quick, friendly and knowledgeable service we received from Kelly and later Adam, and are extremely pleased with the result. We have ongoing tasks that require further assistance and will not hesitate to get back in touch with McDaniels, and would happily recommend the team to anyone looking for a similar service.
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
A representative from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 28 March, 2023
Thank you for your review. We appreciate the positive feedback you have given us and look forward to working with you in the future.
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Sofa design Infringement defence.
We met Kelly at the JFS Furniture show, where required some general advice about a new product we had launched, that had been alleged to have infringed another manufacturers product, which she helped tremendously with and put us all at ease.
The Accusing party sent legal letters, threats and demands which we passed to Kelly, who fought our case professionally and directly, after Kelly's involvement the accusers soon relented and accepted there wasn't any infringement, I'm pretty sure without her help we wouldn't of had the outcome we had hoped for.
We are very grateful for all you help Kelly, pleasure to work with you given the circumstances, you will be the only business on our list for any future help, advice and related services moving forward.
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
Kelly Hudson from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 07 March, 2023
Thank you for your review. We appreciate the positive feedback you have given us and look forward to working with you in the future.
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Copyright Infringement
I had several failed attempts at issuing a DMCA to an online content company, and just being ignored. I decided to goto Kelly, and I am very pleased to confirm that Kelly assured me that we were in the right and she could get the copyrighted content removed, which she did. We were kept fully informed and advised along the way. I would have no hesitation to go straight back to Kelly when an issue like this arises again, which in our industry is liable to happen!
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
Kelly Hudson from Mcdaniel & Co. Limited responded to this review on 07 March, 2023
Thank you for your review. We appreciate the positive feedback you have given us and look forward to working with you in the future.
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Brilliant Lawyers and fantastic value
Best decision we ever made was to start working with Kelly. We won our 3 year legal battle against a much bigger brand (despite people saying we would loose) we have also fended off multiple claims from various "chancers'. Up there as one of Top 5 business decisions ever!
Marcus Fairfax Fountaine
FAIRFAX & FAVOR
Lawyer named in this review: Kelly Hudson
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