Kimberley Evans

Kim is a lawyer and registered Trans-Tasman trade mark attorney with a wide-ranging and impressive practice background spanning private practice, in-house experience and academic activities.  Kim’s clients appreciate her responsiveness, and her ability to provide clear and pragmatic branding advice that is tailored to their commercial objectives and informed by industry developments.

With a background in telecommunications and IP/IT law, Kim’s focus is trade marks.  Kim assists with all aspects of contentious and non contentious brand strategies.  This includes protection, enforcement, and commercialisation of registered and unregistered brands in Australia and New Zealand. She:

• provides a full range of trade mark prosecution services, from adoption and searching through to filing and registration, including defending against post-registration actions;
• creates robust long-term and targeted trade mark protection and enforcement strategies;
• manages complex regional and international trade mark portfolios across a wide range of industries;
• advises on enforcement issues, including infringement, misleading and deceptive conduct, passing off, domain name disputes and recovery, and best methods for protecting IP on social media;
• assists with IP commercialisation including licenses and assignments;
• implements enforcement strategies involving office actions and State and Federal Court litigation.

Early in her career, Kim worked as a member of the in-house legal team for the UK and Republic of Ireland’s largest pay television provider British Sky Broadcasting, for several years.  In Australia, she worked at Davies Collison Cave for more than five years before moving to Allens where she remained for just over a decade.  She has supported some the world’s most recognisable brands including media conglomerates, pay television broadcasters, international hotel chains, biotechnology entities, FMCG companies, biofuel manufacturers, sporting bodies, and medical technology entities.

In addition to gaining skills in private practice and in-house, Kim taught and tutored in trade mark law and practice for several years for University of Technology, Sydney.

Kim is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, as well as a member of IPTA, the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, and IPSANZ, the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.