Garry specialises in commercial litigation, contentious intellectual property matters and media law. He also has significant experience of IT litigation.

Garry has significant experience in general commercial litigation, patent infringement and entitlement disputes, copyright, industrial designs, trade marks, passing off and breach of confidence.

He regularly advises on the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, and is also experienced with Fair Trading Act actions and advertising standards complaints. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia & New Zealand (IPSANZ).

Before joining Bell Gully in 2003 he spent five years in London working for leading firms Nabarro Nathanson, and Olswang.

Qualifications

LLB, University of Canterbury

Admitted

1992 New Zealand
1998 England & Wales (non-practising)

International Career

  • Nabarro Nathanson, London
    1997-2000
  • Olswang, London
    2000-2002

Publications

Contact

Email: Garry Williams

DDI: +64 9 916 8661

Mobile: +64 21 0427 456

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Areas of Expertise

Work Highlights

Osmose New Zealand
Acted for Osmose New Zealand in a high profile defamation claim. Settlement was reached on the first day of a trial that was scheduled to run for six weeks.

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.

Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment
Acting for Sony in an anti-circumvention device claim relating to the copy-protection contained in PlayStation2 game systems and PlayStation2 game software.

South Pacific Tyres New Zealand Limited.
Acting successfully for South Pacific Tyres' against the French automobile club famous for organising the 24 hour race of LE MANS from registering LE MANS as a trade mark for tyres in New Zealand.  South Pacific Tyres has used the mark LE MANS in connection with tyres in New Zealand for almost 20 years.