Recent experience
- Advising on a wide variety of intellectual property issues and agreements across a broad range of commercial contexts
- Managing the registration and maintenance of trade marks and patents for a range of local and international clients
- Enforcing intellectual property rights internationally, including running regional anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy programmes for a number of high profile international clients. Enforcement work has covered an extensive range of products protected under trade mark, unfair competition, copyright and patent laws including in respect of clothing, footwear, toys, flashlights, cigarettes, luxury goods, watches, software, film/television and music
- Handling domain name disputes and other contentious issues relating to the exploitation of intellectual property rights over the Internet (including litigation before the courts and arbitration under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy)
- Undertaking a variety of media related work, including for advertising agencies, production companies, satellite and cable operators and film studios. This has included regulatory work, the drafting and negotiation of contractual documentation relating to the production, distribution and acquisition of content in a wide variety of media and, specifically relating to television, channel licensing and joint venture operating arrangements
- Acting for governing bodies, national associations, sports management companies and sponsors in respect of a range of major sporting events, including in relation to soccer, rugby, athletics and adventure racing and including the exploitation of such events through a variety of media, including television
- Drafting and negotiating a range of IT agreements including in relation to software and hardware procurement, licensing and maintenance and including agreements for use in e-commerce