Kevin has general commercial litigation experience, with particular expertise in intellectual property, media law and domain name disputes.

Kevin acts for plaintiffs and defendants on intellectual property litigation matters relating to breach of confidence, copyright, trade marks, passing off Fair Trading Act, patents and plant variety rights, and has particular experience in making interim injunction applications.

He advises on media law issues including defamation, name suppression and contempt of court. He has advised and acted for claimants on domain name disputes under the New Zealand Dispute Resolution Service (including the first complaint under the system), the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and in the High Court of New Zealand.

He is also skilled in general civil and commercial litigation matters in the District Court and High Court.

Kevin rejoined Bell Gully's litigation team in 2005 after completing his Master of Laws at the University of Cambridge and practising at Ashurst in London. While at  Ashurst he was seconded to the UK legal team of Europe's largest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis.

Qualifications

LLB (Hons) University of Waikato
LLM University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College)

Admitted

2000 New Zealand

International Career

  • Ashurst, London
    2004-2005
  • Sanofi-Aventis, United Kingdom
    2005

Publications

Contact

Email: Kevin Glover

DDI: 64 9 916 8323

Mobile: 64 21 532 461

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Areas of Expertise

Recent Work

Trelise Cooper v Tamsin Cooper
Bell Gully acted for Arrowtown fashion designer Tamsin Cooper in relation to High Court proceedings brought against her by Trelise Cooper Limited, a company associated with the fashion designer Trelise Cooper. This was a high profile dispute relating to Tamsin Cooper's ability to trade under her own name, and involved claims for trade mark infringement, passing off and the Fair Trading Act. The matter was resolved in July 2007 by Trelise Cooper discontinuing the proceedings and abandoning oppositions which had been lodged against the "Tamsin Cooper" trade marks. Trelise Cooper also agreed that Tamsin Cooper has the right to continue to trade under her own name.

InterCity Group Limited v Traction Group Limited
Acting for InterCity Group in a successful claim for transfer of the domain name intercity.co.nz. This was the first claim lodged with New Zealand's new domain name dispute service which came into force on 1 June 2006.

RLA Polymers
Advising flooring adhesives company RLA Polymers Pty Ltd in a breach of confidence claim, including an interim injunction application, against a former employee and her new company.