Robert Cumming

Partner, Appleyard Lee

Robert is a UK and European Registered Trade Mark Attorney and intellectual property solicitor with extensive litigation experience. He has worked with a broad range of international and domestic brands in the fashion, beauty, e-commerce and music industries in relation to the registration, exploitation and enforcement of their intellectual property rights before the trade mark registries and the courts.

His team was awarded the World IP Leaders Award: Winner of Private Practice Trademark Excellence/Litigation in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Intellectual Property Magazine Awards: Private Practice of the Year (International) in 2010.

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If a company proposes to launch a new product in Japan through a Japanese subsidiary and then to launch

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This Q&A considers trade marks and passing off.

What are the key practical issues for a business to consider when exploiting its intellectual property

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This Q&A considers the main IP rights that exist, and identifies steps that a business can take to protect and exploit its IP. It considers ownership of IP, policing an IP portfolio and revenue models, and attaches a checklist for conducting an IP audit.

What fees are payable in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in relation to key stages of

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This Q&A considers the fees payable in the IPEC at key stages of the proceedings.

When making a trade mark application, do you usually need to include class 16 to cover use of the mark on

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This Q&A looks at how an applicant can select the appropriate goods and services when filing a trade mark application in the UK.

Where a distributor sells a product, that has been put on the market in the EEA by the rightsholder and

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This Q&A considers whether the principle of exhaustion applies where a trade mark registered product is distributed for a purpose for which it is not intended and for which it is not fit for.