Lloyd Parker
Regional Managing Partner - Asia-Pacific Intellectual Property
Languages
English, Japanese
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023My main contact is Lloyd Parker. He is a top fighter and is always thinking outside the box, looking for novel ways to provide better, faster and less expensive services to clients, offering clients advantages not available elsewhere.
Lloyd Parker is Regional Managing Partner, Asia-Pacific, and as a member of the firm's leadership team, is focused on achieving the firm's strategy in Asia-Pacific.
Lloyd’s combination of experience in a variety of legal areas and business across a number of jurisdictions is a key differentiator which clients appreciate as he develops creative and commercial solutions to help clients achieve their legal and commercial objectives. In his early years as a lawyer Lloyd worked in litigation (including as an Associate to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland), commercial/corporate, competition law and a wide variety of intellectual property laws. Building on his previous business studies in Australia and Japan, he then worked as a management consultant at one of the world’s most famous management consultancy firms. Returning to law he proceeded to focus on intellectual property.
As the longest serving Partner of our regional Intellectual Property Practice Group, Lloyd takes an innovative and client-led approach to problem solving. As one example, Lloyd created, and is leading our Total Brand Care concept which is designed to assist our clients in commercializing and protecting the value and reputation of a company and their brands.
Today, with over 25 years of experience as an intellectual property lawyer, Lloyd is recognized by every independent legal directory as a “leading IP lawyer in Japan.”
Lloyd provides trademark portfolio management and enforcement counsel to clients in a broad range of industries and regularly works with the firm's global offices to offer multi-jurisdictional trademark advice (contentious and non-contentious) to clients.
Lloyd is also active in our Diversity & Inclusion and citizenship activities. For a number of years he has been leading our relationship with, and assistance to the Japanese Para-Sports Association and the Japan Riding Association for the Disabled.
Lloyd has more than 35 years' association with Japan (including living and working in Japan for over 20 years). He is fluent in Japanese. He studied Japanese in Japan for two years—one year at Doshisha University and one year at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023My main contact is Lloyd Parker. He is a top fighter and is always thinking outside the box, looking for novel ways to provide better, faster and less expensive services to clients, offering clients advantages not available elsewhere.
Representative experience
Advising one of Japan's top automotive brands by revenue on global trademark portfolio management, including applications, office actions, oppositions, negotiations, and agreements in over 150 countries.
Creating and implementing an international brand protection strategy for a leading Japanese company resulting in the seizure of over 250 million infringing goods worldwide.
Advising Japanese electronics manufacturer on global trademark and design portfolio management, including searches, applications, negotiations with third party right holders and enforcement against infringers.
Advising Japanese medical devices manufacturer on domain name registration and renewal, and global trademark portfolio management including clearance searches, applications, and registrations.
Advising a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer on their global licence agreements.
Advising one of the world's most famous food and beverage companies on the registration and protection of their brands.
Credentials
- B.Com., University of Queensland, 1985
- LL.B., University of Queensland, with Honors, 1988
- B.A., University of Queensland, 1992
- Doshisha University
- Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
- Australia
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- Japan - Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi)
- High Court of Australia
- England and Wales
- Supreme Court of Queensland
- Member, International Trademark Association (INTA)
- Member, Japan Intellectual Property Association