• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Deals
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Intellectual property
        • Information technology
        • Multi-service
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse all insights
    • In focus
        • AI
        • Dealonomics
        • Disputes
        • Intellectual property
        • MENA
        • Regulation
        • Browse in focus
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse all events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Kasongo Swana
Kasongo Swana
Kasongo Swana

Kasongo Swana

Associate: Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

  • Liverpool UK
Contact Me Today
+44 20 7300 7000
vCard
Email me Call me

Kasongo is an associate and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney. She has wide-ranging experience in brand protection and advising clients on trade mark portfolio management and enforcement.

Kasongo works with clients ranging from individuals and SMEs to international conglomerates. Her sector focus includes financial services, cosmetics, fashion, and technology. She regularly advises well-known brands in both contentious and non-contentious trade mark matters.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Brands & advertising
Trade mark registration & portfolio management

Sectors

Technology, media & communications

CV

Since 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2023 - 2024 Trade Mark Attorney, Stobbs
2020 - 2023 Trainee Trade Mark Attorney, Stobbs
2017 - 2020 County Court Advocate, LPC Law
2023 PGC - Trade Mark Practice, Nottingham Law School
2022 PGC - Trade Mark Law and Practice, Queen Mary, University of London
2017 Called to the Bar of England and Wales
2017 PGD - Bar Professional Training Course, Manchester Law School
2016 Law LLB (Hons), Queen Mary, University of London

Career

Since 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2023 - 2024 Trade Mark Attorney, Stobbs
2020 - 2023 Trainee Trade Mark Attorney, Stobbs
2017 - 2020 County Court Advocate, LPC Law

Education

2023 PGC - Trade Mark Practice, Nottingham Law School
2022 PGC - Trade Mark Law and Practice, Queen Mary, University of London
2017 Called to the Bar of England and Wales
2017 PGD - Bar Professional Training Course, Manchester Law School
2016 Law LLB (Hons), Queen Mary, University of London

Publications

Overview of 2023 UK Trade Mark Cases, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), Vol 55, Cramp, H., Swana, K. & Zhou, Y., Mar 27, 2024, pages 441–453.

Overview of 2023 UK Trade Mark Cases | IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (springer.com).

Overview of United Kingdom Trade Mark Cases 2021, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), Volume 53, Julius Stobbs, Yana Zhou, Adeline Weber Bain & Kasongo Swana, Mar 16, 2022, pages 406–419.

Overview of United Kingdom Trade Mark Cases 2021 | IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (springer.com).

Face Race, CITMA Review, Jan 4, 2022. CITMA - Face race.

Memberships & Associations

Ordinary Member, The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA).

Kasongo's news & insights

View Kasongo's insights
Offset printing machine
Click here to find out more
Brands & advertising

In other news – a round up of other key UK and EU developments

16 December 2024

by multiple authors

Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Brands & advertising

Sweet taste of victory for PINKLADY - how a brand's reputation can prevent the registration of similar marks for harmful goods

18 September 2024
In-depth analysis

by Kasongo Swana

Click here to find out more
View Kasongo's insights

Related news & insights

Games and gambling

Sweepstakes & Social Casinos in Germany: Legal Overview and Opportunities

4 December 2025
Quick read

by Dr. Fabian Masurat, CIPP/E

Click here to find out more
Play Guide
Games and gambling

Play

3 December 2025
Click here to find out more
Humanoid robot thinking
Information technology

Artificial intelligence in the regulatory jungle of cybersecurity law between AI Act, CRA and CSA

3 December 2025
In-depth analysis

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

2026: bridging the accessibility gap, through new laws and old

2 December 2025

by Jo Joyce and Giles Crown

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Online safety in 2026: enhancement and enforcement in the EU and UK

2 December 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Copyright in 2026: clarification, review and reform

2 December 2025

by Dr. Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge) and Louise Popple

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Digital Fairness Act and Digital Omnibus: clarity or complexity for businesses in 2026?

2 December 2025

by Nathalie Koch, LL.M. (UC Hastings)

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

2026: the year AI grows up

1 December 2025

by Martijn Loth

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Technology and media predictions 2026

1 December 2025

by Graham Hann and Nick Harrison

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Predictions 2026

1 December 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

UK
Global
Andi Terziu

Andi Terziu

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Alice Anderson

Alice Anderson

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
France Delord

France Delord

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4849
Email me
View profile
Niri Shan

Niri Shanmuganathan

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4782
Email me
View profile
Louise Popple

Louise Popple

Senior Counsel – Knowledge

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Simon Jupp

Simon Jupp

Senior Counsel

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Lydia Birch

Lydia Birch

Senior Counsel

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Xuyang Zhu

Xuyang Zhu

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4189
Email me
View profile
Fionnuala Richardson

Fionnuala Richardson

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Vita Hink

Vita Hink

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Full team
Walasek-Przemysław

Przemysław Walasek, LL.M.

Partner

Warsaw
+48 22 5849740
Email me
View profile
Andreas Schütz

Andreas Schütz, LL.M.

Partner

Vienna
+43 1 71 65 50
Email me
View profile
David Mulder

David Mulder

Counsel

Amsterdam
+31 88 02 43 019
Email me
View profile
Hannah Garvey

Hannah Garvey

Associate

Dublin
+353 1 224 1092
Email me
View profile
Steiner Erik

Erik Steiner

Counsel

Vienna
+43 1 71 65 50
Email me
View profile
Saskia Bullens

Saskia van der Meijden-Bullens

Trademark and Design Attorney

Eindhoven
+31 88 02 43 109
Email me
View profile
Ines Tribouillet

Inès Tribouillet

Counsel

Paris
+33 1 72 74 03 33
Email me
View profile
Adam Lybaert

Adam Lybaert

Associate

Brussels
+32 28 87 91 42
Email me
View profile
Marie Keup

Marie Keup

Partner

Brussels
+32 2 3202 252
Email me
View profile
Simon Jupp

Simon Jupp

Senior Counsel

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing