• Nick Rose
• Partner, London
• Field Fisher Waterhouse
• nick.rose@ffw.com
• work +44 (0)20 7861 4226

Nick is the Head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Dispute Resolution Group. Nick specialises in intellectual property enforcement, and his main areas of practice are copyright, trade marks, domain names, passing-off, design law, trade secrets and computer contract disputes.

Nick specialises in the media & entertainment, technology, retail and sport sectors.

Nick is a member of INTA’s Internet Committee (On Line Use Sub-committee), LES, AIPLA and CLS.

Nick is listed as a leading IP lawyer in the UK in the Legal 500 and Chambers Directories, the Legal 500 has described Nick as “one of the best for litigation”. He is also listed as being amongst the world's leading trademark lawyers in the International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers 2010. The publication has been taken from The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. The research was based on the opinions of hundreds of law firm clients and trade mark lawyers from around the world." Nick has also been rated as a leading expert in Chambers Global 2013 and as an outstanding lawyer for intellectual property in the UK in "Super Lawyers" which rates lawyers from more than 70 practice areas

Nick has been involved in a number of leading reported cases, across the full spectrum of intellectual property rights, including:

• Hachette (ELLE) v Safeways (1997) FFR 529, (acting for the Claimant, leading case on use of a trade mark in a different form to how it is registered);
• Music Gallery v Direct Line & Others (1998) EMLR 551 (acting for the Claimant, copyright in a jingle used in advertisement)
• AntiquesPortfolio.com v Rodney Finch (July 2000) The Times (acting for the Claimant, copyright in still photographs)
• The Zockoll Group v 800 Flowers Inc (2000) FFR 697 (acting for the Claimant, leading decision on use of a trade mark on the internet in different jurisdictions)
• Navitaire v easyJet (2006) RPC 3 (acting for the Claimant, leading copyright case on rights in databases, data structures, user interface, screens)
• Scansafe v MessageLabs [2006] EWHC 2015 (acting for the Claimant, reverse passing off)
• Helmet Integrated Systems Ltd v Tunnard & Ors (Patents County Court) ((2006) FSR 41))  (acting for the Defendants, concerning unregistered design rights relating to the design of a firefighter’s helmet and related employment issues)
• Helmet Integrated Systems Ltd v Tunnard & Ors (Court of Appeal) ((2007) IRLR 126 : (2007) FSR 16 (acting for the Defendants, employment issues as above)
• Vestergaard Frandsen & Ors v Bestnet Europe Ltd & Ors (High Court) ((2008) 31(1) IPD 31005) and [2009] EWHC 657 (Ch) (acting for the Claimant, in a technical trade secrets action)
• Other recent cases include representing Ordnance Survey in its leading copyright case against The Automobile Association which led to a £20 million settlement for the Ordnance Survey and acting for the owners of the MORTONS nightclub in a trade mark dispute.

He has written many publications and is author of “Pre-Emptive Remedies in Europe” (1992, Longmans) and various chapters in other publications on international jurisdiction and enforcement issues. 

He is also a regular writer of articles on various intellectual property law subjects, and is on the Panel of Contributors for the “World Trade Mark Report” and “World Media Law Report”.