- Lucy Nunn
- Senior Associate, London
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- lucy.nunn@ffw.com
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work
+44 (0)20 7861 4939
intellectual property, trade marks, design
rights, copyright, retail, media, transport, hotels &
leisure, travel & tourism and
technology & communications
sectors.
Lucy is a Senior Associate in our IP and Technology Dispute Resolution
Group. She specialises in contentious work in relation to all
aspects of soft intellectual property, including trade marks,
design
rights, copyright, passing off and
domain name disputes. She advises clients in the retail, media, transport,
hotels &
leisure, travel & tourism and
technology &
communications sectors.
Lucy has extensive experience in coordinating
brand-protection operations for a variety of well-known brands,
including anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy operations. Her
brand protection efforts have included actions before the High
Court, Court of Appeal, the Patents County Court and the Company
Names Tribunal, as well as coordinating seizures by Customs and
Trading Standards in the UK, and disputes (including seizures)
across Europe.
Lucy has contributed to various publications
and has spoken on various topics including domain name disputes,
protecting IP in the fashion industry, the impact of the new
generic top level domain names and keyword advertising.
Lucy's recent experience includes:
- Advising MTV in two High Court claims which
went to trial in 2011 in respect of trade mark and programming
licensing agreements with a local licensee in Turkey.
- Advising multi-national electronics retailer
Best Buy in its successful claim for groundless threats of trade
mark infringement in the Court of Appeal, a case which raised
important issues regarding the scope of section 21 of the Trade
Marks Act and the protection afforded to without prejudice
correspondence (Best Buy Co., Inc. and Another v Worldwide Sales
Corporation España S.L. [2011] EWCA Civ 618).
- Representing Enterprise Rent-A-Car in a trade
mark infringement and passing off dispute in the Patents County
Court in 2011.
- Acting on behalf of an online travel agent
Met Global in defending a claim for trade mark infringement and
passing off based on the online use of various marks, the claim
went to trial in the High Court in 2010.
- Acting on behalf of Just Employment Law Ltd
in successfully defending a claim for trade mark infringement and
passing off, and succeeding in invalidating the claimant's trade
mark on the basis of descriptiveness (Bignell (t/a Just Employment)
v Just Employment Law Ltd [2007] EWHC 2203 (Ch)).
- Advising GMG Radio Holdings in a claim for an
injunction based on passing off in respect of the use of particular
get-up in relation to CDs (GMG Radio Holdings Ltd v Tokyo Project
Ltd [2005] EWHC 2188 (Ch)).
- Coordinating various trade mark infringement
and passing off claims throughout Europe on behalf various
clients.
- Successfully recovering numerous domain
names on behalf of clients under the Nominet DRS, UDRP and EURiD
ADR policies, including obtaining cancellation of a domain name in
one of the first complaints brought relating to a .pro domain
name.