Intellectual property

Melanie McGuirk

Partner

Sarah Bazaraa

Associate Partner

Robert Lye

Robert specialises in intellectual property law. His practice focuses primarily on handling IP and IT related disputes and their resolution. He has extensive experience of both conducting and defending actions involving the infringement of IP rights. He also has experience of handling claims for compensation and other remedies arising from the termination of commercial agency agreements.

Andrew Stone

Andrew is a Legal Director in the firm’s Intellectual Property team. Andrew advises a range of clients on Intellectual Property matters and has a particular specialism in Anti-Counterfeiting. Over the course of his career Andrew has dealt with and advised on various intellectual property matters through different legal solutions. He has significant experience in conducting trade mark, passing off, copyright, design right and patent litigation as well as advising on breach of privacy and breach of confidence claims. Andrew has previously been ranked as a ‘Next Generation Partners’ in Legal500 and ‘Up and Coming’ in Chambers.

Paul Bentham

Partner

Amy Chandler

Partner

Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones is a partner at Kuits and is one of a handful of people in the country who are both qualified as a chartered and European patent attorney, and also admitted as a solicitor. Bruce’s singular combination of skills enables him to act for clients throughout the full intellectual property lifecycle and across the full spectrum of intellectual property rights. His practice encompasses acting for both claimant and defendant in all forms of IP disputes, with particular experience in multi-jurisdictional patent and trademark disputes. He also represents clients in domain name disputes before Nominet. Bruce is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, a member of the European Patent Institute, a member of the Law Society and a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.