We focus on trade marks and brands for the entertainment and sports industries. We search and provide opinions on film and television titles and advise on global portfolio management in unique and highly effective ways. Our clients include leading award-winning Hollywood actors, directors, studios and production companies, streamers, television broadcasters, global sports brands, entertainers and peak legal associations. Apart from this website, we do not advertise. We do not appear in legal guides. Clients and lawyers find us by way of results, recommendations and our one-of-a kind reputation.
Robin Covell is a highly experienced insightful trade marks attorney with extensive legal, brand management, licensed merchandise and media experience. Robin was previously an international brand manager, a publisher’s assistant and a judge's associate in both the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia.
Wayne Covell is a lawyer, trade marks attorney, author, film commissioner and executive producer. With degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney, he was a judge’s tipstaff and research assistant in the New South Wales Court of Appeal in 1986 and was first admitted as a barrister in the same year. He’s also practised with a leading Australian patent & trade marks attorney firm and the world’s largest law firm.
In 1991 Wayne was invited to become the foundation lecturer in post graduate Trade Marks Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he also taught Remedies and Evidence. In 1993 Wayne was appointed Sub Dean of the UTS Law School. In 2000 he was registered as a trade marks attorney.
Wayne has negotiated innumerable film, television, music and merchandising deals. He is also foundation film commissioner for Fiji where he negotiated with Hollywood studios and producers to shoot their feature films in Fiji. He’s represented many clients at entertainment and intellectual property events including INTA, The Cannes Film Festival, MipCOM, MipTV, The American Film Market, Locations Expo, International Licensing Expo, Irish Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, NATPE and the Sundance Film Festival.
Wayne is a founding co-author of Covell & Lupton’s Principles of Remedies, first published in 1995, cited by the High Court of Australia and widely available throughout the world. It's now in its 8th edition for LexisNexis. He’s also written for The Trademark Reporter®, the World Intellectual Property Report and IP Asia.
James Covell is our trade mark paralegal searcher. James has a Diploma in Screen and Media and is a Bachelor of Arts Media graduand at Macquarie University. James assists with our trade mark searches and film and television title searches.