Jill Bainbridge
Partner
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The twin engines of the trademark offering are Jill Bainbridge and Ben Evans. "Well prepared and effective", Bainbridge is appreciated for her "good commercial sense and charming manner"... Together they have been meeting the branding needs of Nokia and Wiggle Limited. "Jill and Ben are professional, friendly, down to earth, responsive and pragmatic. Both consistently produce quality work and obtain favourable results."
Heading up the firm’s Intellectual Property group and Trade Mark prosecution team, Jill specialises in IP and IT disputes. She also heads the Commercial Litigation teams in the South and Wales.
Main areas of practice
Her experience includes contract and commercial disputes, intellectual property disputes including patent infringement, breach of copyright, design infringement, trademark and passing off matters, brand strategy advice and domain name disputes.
Jill has extensive experience of international arbitration and cross-border enforcement of intellectual property rights and domain name dispute resolution. Jill also specialises in aviation disputes.
Jill advises various clients on breach of confidence, infringement of database rights and breach of restrictive covenant issues relating to ex-employees. She secures the return of confidential information and damages.
Clients
Her clients include multi-national corporates and public sector bodies, including Nokia and clients based in the UK and overseas in the retail and charities sectors.
Expertise
Career
Jill joined the firm in 1999 and was awarded an LLM in Advanced Litigation with distinction in 2002. In 2004 Jill gained a distinction in her Diploma in Legal Practice Management.
She was ranked as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500 2019 and 2020 editions.
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Accreditations
Memberships
- Associate member of CITMA and INTA
- Co-Chair of the TAGAlliances IP speciality group
Significant Experience
- Intellectual Property: Jill manages the trade mark portfolios of her clients and advises on brand strategy.
- Intellectual Property: Jill manages the trade mark portfolios of her clients and advises on brand strategy.
- Aviation: Jill deals with disputes for aviation clients, which include wet lease disputes, contractual disputes and intellectual property disputes. She recently conducted a trial in the Commercial Court in London under Portuguese law involving parties from Italy and Portugal. Jill is experienced in seeking injunctive relief to include arresting aircraft.
Additional Expertise
Franchising: Jill has helped large groups of franchisees negotiate to leave their networks, including financial service and photography franchisees. She has also helped franchisors with a range of issues, including obtaining injunctive relief to restrain a former franchisee from competing.
Articles: She regularly lectures on intellectual property law, trade marks and brand strategy.
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