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Robert Dickens

Associate

London

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Robert Dickens

Associate

London

Rob specialises in all areas of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trade marks, designs and patents.

He has worked with clients across a range of sectors, including technology, food & beverage, life sciences, consumer & retail, financial services and media. Rob also has experience in transactional intellectual property.

Rob has advised on the intellectual property issues arising from AI, and is a member of the firm’s AI group delivering strategic advice to clients on the safe deployment of generative AI. He has spent six months in-house at Google DeepMind on client secondment.

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Office

London

One Bishops Square
London
E1 6AD

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Qualifications

Academic

BA (Hons), Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 2018

LLM, Distinction, Commercial Legal Practice, BPP University, 2020

Pro bono

  • Working with Just for Kids Law to advise and represent young people who have been permanently excluded from school.
  • Working with Z2K to provide legal advice to Londoners experiencing complex benefits and housing issues that are causing financial hardship and crisis.
  • Advising C4RD, an arts charity in Highbury & Islington.
  • Working with REDRESS on raising awareness of and preventing LGBT+ violence and torture globally.
  • Advising Zaytoun, a community interest company which supports the livelihoods of Palestinian farmers, on trade mark matters.
  • Working with Causeway Education on the A&O Smart Start scheme.
  • Working with Brightside Mentoring on the A&O Smarter Futures scheme.

Published work

  • Robert Dickens (2021) 'Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: what next for the UK?', A&O Data Hub
  • Robert Dickens (2021) 'Surprising UKIPO decision finds likelihood of confusion on the basis of non-distinctive and descriptive common element', World Trademark Review
  • Robert Dickens, Beverley Potts (2022) 'Considering the IPO’s consultation on designs framework and its impacts', LexisNexis
  • Robert Dickens (2022) 'Interim injunctions for product launches: has the horse bolted?', A&O
  • Mark Ridgway, James Gagen, Jill Ge, Robert Dickens (2023) 'The key to unlocking a successful trade secrets strategy', World Intellectual Property Review Insights
  • Robert Dickens (2023) 'UK re-considers proposed exception for text and data mining', A&O Digital Hub
  • Robert Dickens (2023) 'UK Supreme Court considers whether AI can be an inventor of a patent', A&O Digital Hub
  • Beverley Potts, Robert Dickens, Theresa Castle (2023) 'NFTs And Intellectual Property Issues: A Practical Primer', A&O Tech Talk
  • Robert Dickens (2023) 'Indirect confusion: What is it good for?', European Intellectual Property Review 2023, 45(6), 344-346