Kevin Glover

Areas of Practice

• Appearances as lead or sole counsel in Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court and Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand.
• General civil and commercial litigation. 
• Intellectual property, including trade marks, copyright, misuse of confidential information, patents, the Fair Trading Act and passing off.
• Domain name disputes.
• Issues relating to media and information, including defamation, contempt of court, privacy, Advertising Standards complaints and the Official Information Act.
• Emergency relief, including interim injunctions and Anton Piller / search orders.
  

Professional Experience

• Bell Gully, Auckland (Senior Associate; previously Senior Solicitor) (2005 to 2009).
• Ashurst, London (Solicitor) (2004 to 2005), including secondment to UK legal team of Sanofi-Aventis (2005).
• Bell Gully, Auckland (Solicitor) (2002 to 2003).
• Russell McVeagh, Auckland (Solicitor) (2000 to 2002).
  

Academic

• Awarded a first in LL.M at University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) (2003-04)
• Awarded Spencer Mason scholarship (2003).
• Awarded scholarship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (2003).
• First class honours in LL.B (Hons) at University of Waikato (1996-1999).
• Awarded NZLS scholarship to attend NZLS Advanced Litigation Skills Programme (2009).

Selected Publications

• "Copyright" chapter of Laws of New Zealand (LexisNexis).
• "Section 92A revisited" [2009] NZ Lawyer 121
• “Domain name dispute resolution” [2009] NZLJ 35.
• “The own name defence to trade mark infringement and passing off in New Zealand” (2003) 3 NZIPJ 169.
• “Comparative advertising in New Zealand” [2003] NZLJ 133.
• “Update on comparative advertising” [2003] NZLJ 159.
• “Book review: New Zealand Court of Appeal 1958-1996: A History” (2003) 11 Waik L Rev 174.
• “Sports sponsorship in New Zealand” (with Michael Cronin) [2001] NZLJ 124. 
• “Severing the ties that bind? The development of a distinctive New Zealand jurisprudence” (2000) 8 Waik L Rev 25.
  

Other

• Mentioned in Australian Legal Business guide to intellectual property practitioners in Australasia (2009).
• Member of the New Zealand committee of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) (2008 to present).
• Member of Legal Research Foundation, NZ Bar Association and New Zealand Law Society.
• Tutor at University of Auckland (2000 – 2002).