EXPERTISE

Alice joined the Leeds Commercial Team as an Associate in May 2021, having previously worked at a boutique IP firm in Leeds and in the Dublin office of one of Ireland's largest law firms. Alice has experience in advising a range of clients across a number of sectors on a variety of commercial and IP issues. Her experience includes advising on commercial contracts, IP licences, collaboration agreements and IP litigation matters.

Experience

  • advising a large Italian luxury fashion brand on strike out proceedings and its defence to a trade mark and design right infringement claim brought against it in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
  • advising various UK household brands on the maintenance and enforcement of their IP rights, including advising on the registrability of potential trade marks, filing trade mark applications and issuing cease & desist letters to potential trade mark infringers
  • issuing proceedings on behalf of a large UK bathroom manufacturer against a number of companies for registered design, unregistered design right and copyright infringement
  • assisting on the IP aspects of a brand acquisition for a large drinks manufacturer, which included global trade mark freedom to operate searches
  • advising a large UK retail business on a claim against it for copyright infringement, and subsequent settlement negotiations
  • drafting and negotiating a patent assignment and licence back for a large UK utilities company
Experience

● advising a large multinational pharmaceutical company on various collaboration agreements for research projects with universities in Singapore

  • advising a large Italian luxury fashion brand on strike out proceedings and its defence to a trade mark and design right infringement claim brought against it in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
  • advising various UK household brands on the maintenance and enforcement of their IP rights, including advising on the registrability of potential trade marks, filing trade mark applications and issuing cease & desist letters to potential trade mark infringers
  • issuing proceedings on behalf of a large UK bathroom manufacturer against a number of companies for registered design, unregistered design right and copyright infringement
  • advising BASF on a High Court claim for passing off and successfully obtaining summary judgment 
Languages
  • Spanish – fluent
  • Portuguese – good command 
  • French – basic command