After initially applying to register the Trust Deed Scotland as a trademarked term in March 2013, Our trademark case was finally registered on 21st November 2014.
This was gratefully received by many people in the wider industry. By 2013, there was incontrovertible evidence that copycat imitations were targeting reputable brands like ours, and that of debt charities such as the National Debt Line, Stepchange and even the Citizens Advice Bureau in Scotland across Google and elsewhere online