Nick Cunningham
- Qualified, Solicitor of England & Wales (1992)
Nick Cunningham helps clients to:
Nick has a wide-ranging dispute resolution practice, with contrasting specialisms in telecoms standards, trade secret protection, copyright and defamation. He is also a qualified mediator.
Nick gets very engaged with his work, and enjoys dealing with other people on complex and strategic issues. Among his colleagues he has a reputation for obtaining good settlement outcomes and for leading successful teams of junior lawyers.
Nick's works regularly and closely with our overseas offices, which is a trend that will continue with the introduction of the European unitary patent and the new court structure that it brings.
Some of the many highlights of Nick's career include developing the firm's Japan Desk, lobbying and advising on IP issues in telecoms standardisation, and working on expert evidence in complex telecoms patent cases.
A trade secrets case involved enforcement against ex-employees who denied taking a vast database of engineering designs and using them to develop competing bids; they eventually conceded and paid very substantial damages and costs. Another recent case involved patent enforcement to oblige a competing manufacturer to withdraw their entire product range, considerably enhancing my client's sales.
In defamation, a recent challenge involved taking through one of the first cases to test major changes in the law following the introduction of the Defamation Act 2013.
Many of Nick's clients are in technical industries, most notably in telecoms and electronics.
His defamation clients come from many different sectors, with a focus on local government, real estate and pharma.