Your brand is intellectual property. From NNN agreements and designer contracts to DMCA takedowns and trademark guidance, paralegal protection for creative businesses, from £27.
IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ
CENTURI DESIGNS holds paralegal certification. Under the Legal Services Act 2007, our services are different from those of a regulated solicitor. We are open about what we can and cannot do. Where something is outside our scope, we will always refer you to a qualified solicitor.
We are fully transparent about our scope as a paralegal service. Anything outside it, we refer to a regulated solicitor.
Contracts, NNN agreements, NDAs, licensing agreements and cease & desist letters tailored to your situation.
Investigate law, precedents and regulations relevant to your IP, supplier agreements and design ownership.
Explain how laws apply to your situation and help you understand your options clearly.
Check your existing contracts and supplier agreements to identify gaps and risks.
Walk you through the UK IPO trademark process. You file it — we prepare everything.
Draft China-enforceable NNN agreements with the correct legal requirements built in.
Paralegals cannot appear in court on your behalf. We will refer you to a qualified solicitor.
We provide legal information and documents. Formal advice on complex disputes requires a regulated solicitor.
We cannot file documents at court or act as your agent in any legal proceedings.
Holding client funds is a reserved activity under the Legal Services Act 2007.
These are reserved legal activities. We cannot offer them under any circumstances.
All documents must be reviewed, signed and sent by you. You stay in control.
The only contract that protects you when working with Chinese suppliers. Stops them sharing your designs, going around you, or competing with you.
A simple confidentiality agreement for designers and studios , protecting your ideas, mood boards, and concepts before you share them.
A professional contract for every client. Covers what you'll deliver, how many changes are included, when you get paid, and who owns the final work.
A firm formal letter telling someone to stop using your brand, logo, or design work without permission , written to be taken seriously.
Extra clauses added into your contracts stating clearly who owns what and exactly when ownership passes from you to your client.
We check whether your brand name or logo can be trademarked and walk you through applying so you file correctly the first time. You submit it; we prepare everything.
Guidance on getting your logo and brand assets properly registered combined with your trademark work for full coverage.
We help you document and prove your copyright clearly. In the UK copyright is automatic but proving it is yours when someone copies you is a different matter.
Guidance on protecting the shape and structure of your product or packaging through UK Registered Designs.
A contract that actually holds up in China. Stops your supplier copying your product, going around you, or selling to your competitors.
Legal documents proving your packaging structure, die-lines, and engineering designs belong to you — so your supplier cannot use or sell them.
A step-by-step checklist for checking a supplier is legitimate before you sign anything covering legal identity, IP risk, and contract readiness.
We read your existing factory or supplier contracts and flag anything that puts your designs at risk, with a written list of what to change.
A formal letter telling a platform to remove content using your work without permission. Required on Instagram, Etsy, Google and more.
A legal document making clear who owns the design files — .ai, .psd, .fig — once a project ends. Stops clients claiming files they haven't paid for.
An agreement for when you licence your design to someone — setting out exactly how they can use it, for how long, and where.
A full review of your brand's legal protection. We check your contracts, supplier agreements, and design assets then give you a clear written report and action plan.
Send us any contract from a client, supplier, or business partner and we'll check it for IP risks, missing terms, and anything that could cause you problems.
Everything a new client should sign before you start work built for your studio so nothing gets missed.