J A Kemp

Trade Marks and Designs

Partner, Solicitor

Aaron is a partner in J A Kemp’s Trade Marks & Designs Group.

In addition to being a UK-qualified solicitor, Aaron is also qualified as a Canadian barrister and solicitor, and an Australian solicitor and registered trade mark attorney.

Aaron’s practice involves all things related to trade marks and brand protection. He also specialises in domain name dispute management.

Examples of Aaron’s work include:

worldwide brand clearance projects for brand owners and creative agencies domain name disputes and online brand protection, including management of high-volume enforcement programmes domestic, overseas and multijurisdictional trade mark dispute management complex cross-proceedings, often with a litigious element advertising and marketing agency support trade marks and IP budget management and planning, including for start-ups

Aaron frequently advises clients on internet and domain name monitoring, domain name acquisition, website and social media complaints and domain name disputes at all major tribunals, including in respect of new gTLDs. In 2018 he was one of only 34 practitioners around the world selected by ICANN to consult on the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) dispute system. The same year he was appointed as a UDRP dispute panellist by the National Arbitration Forum in the United States.

Aaron joined J A Kemp as a partner in 2019, having previously worked elsewhere in private practice in the UK, Australia and Canada.

Member of INTA; Marques; Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador

BA (Honours) English, Memorial University of Newfoundland LLB; University of New Brunswick (Canada) and Melbourne University (Australia)