Carin  is a UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with  a certificate from the Intellectual Property Regulation Board as a Higher Courts Litigator in England and Wales.  She is also qualified as an Irish Registered Trade Mark Attorney to practise before the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland and is a Registered Professional Representative before the EU IPO in Alicante.  

After Carin took her LLB at Queen Mary, University of London, she trained to become a trade mark attorney with two well established firms in London and passed the qualifying exams in 1985. She then went to Hong Kong where she worked with a leading law firm as a trade mark attorney handling some of the earliest trade mark registrations under the then new filing system of the PRC. After three years, she returned to the UK and became a director of the trade mark legal arm of a well-known brand agency. Carin went on to help set up the trade mark registration practice at a large firm of Leeds based solicitors before establishing the practice which later became BRANDED! in 1995.