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| Garry Mills |
| Head of Trade Marks and Brands |
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Solicitor |
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Bristol University, LLM, Masters degree in International Law.
The College of Law, York, Law Society Final Examinations. |
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Garry Mills trained and qualified as a solicitor in 1994 at Eversheds. He joined the Intellectual Property Department of the international law firm Clifford Chance in 1995 where he spent over 14 years, before joining Innovate Legal as Head of Trade Marks and Brands in December 2009.
Garry is an intellectual property specialist with extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious work with a strong focus on brand protection and enforcement – in particular trade marks, passing off, copyright and designs and internet domain names, as well as breach of contract disputes. He also has considerable experience of advising on the intellectual property aspects of significant corporate transactions.
He has acted for clients in proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the General Court (previously the Court of First Instance) and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He regularly contributes articles and speaks on IP matters. |
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Mars v Nestle - acting for Mars in a trade mark infringement and passing off proceedings concerning the packaging of Nestlé’s MUNCHIES confectionery packaging |
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Mars v Waitrose - acting for Mars in a trade mark infringement and passing off action concerning the get up of the packaging of Waitrose’s pet food products |
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Kimberly Clark v Fort Sterling - acting for Kimberly Clark in trade mark infringement and passing off proceedings against a competitor using the ANDREX trademark for an on-pack promotional campaign |
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BT v AT&T - acting for AT&T successfully defending proceedings brought by BT in respect of AT&T’s comparative advertising which compared AT&T and BT’s telephone call pricing |
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Acting for Barclays Bank in opposition proceedings before the UK Intellectual Property Office and the High Court against an application for the mark SPARKLYCARD |
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Acting for Faberge Limited defending an opposition brought by Danjaq LLC (producers of the James Bond film series) to Faberge’s application to register FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE in respect of jewellery |
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Acting for Mars securing protection as a Community trade mark of "WHISKAS Purple" as a single colour trade mark |
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HAVE A BREAK – advising Mars in proceedings referred to the European Court of Justice concerning the registration of Nestle’s HAVE A BREAK slogan |
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Lego v Cotterell – acting for Lego in High Court proceedings against an individual who had registered “legolandwindsor” domain names |
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Bodum v Household Articles – acting for Bodum in invalidation proceedings brought before the High Court in respect of a competitor’s UK Registered Design for a cafetiere |
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Burberry v Citizen – acting for Citizen Jewellery in a claim by Burberry concerning the calculation of royalties payable by Citizen under a trade mark licence for the manufacture and sale of BURBERRY branded jewellery in Japan |
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Philip Morris v VenFin – acting for Philip Morris in its claim for a Declaration entitling it to terminate for breach of contract a trade mark licence in respect of its cigarette brands in South Africa |
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Advising the purchaser on the intellectual property aspects of the acquisition of the European FINDUS brand from Nestle |
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Acting for Volvo on the IP aspects of its sale of the Volvo Cars business to Ford |
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