Senior Associate
Timothy Spiteri
Timothy Spiteri
Timothy is a Senior Associate within the firm’s intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting department. He has significant experience handling contentious and litigious IP matters, particularly those with a cross-border dimension.
He has acted for clients across a vast range of industry sectors in judicial and extrajudicial IP disputes, particularly concerning trademarks and copyright. He has also assisted clients in infringement proceedings involving REUDs, in domain name dispute resolution proceedings and in the enforcement of Geographical Indications. He has represented clients before a range of adjudicating bodies, including the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the EUIPO’s Boards of Appeal and the Superior Courts in Malta.
Timothy frequently assists clients in negotiating and concluding amicable settlements and is also highly active in trademark prosecution work, with notable experience managing large multi-territorial trademark portfolios.
In addition, he regularly assists clients in advisory, contractual and transactional IP work and is also experienced in EU law, unfair competition, food law and product labelling matters.
Education
- Bachelor of Laws (2013, University of Malta)
- Doctor of Laws (2016, University of Malta)
Representative Experience
- Represented a world leading software company in copyright infringement proceedings before the Maltese courts;
- Assisted multiple clients in securing pan-EU injunctive relief on the basis of trademark and copyright infringement;
- Assisted a world leading food consortium in the enforcement of its PDO in Malta;
- Represented a leading Asian food manufacturer in multiple proceedings before the EUIPO’s Opposition Division and Boards of Appeal;
- Assisted clients in claiming acquired distinctiveness in respect of descriptive and unconventional marks (including colour marks);
- Represents various Maltese and international based companies in the prosecution of large trademark portfolios, on a world-wide basis;
- Represents various companies and public authorities on complex software and information technology agreements;
- Assisted an autonomous public entity to draft a legislative proposal aimed at transposing Directive (EU) 2019/790 into Maltese law, with multiple provisions being adopted verbatim in the final text of the transposing legislation.
Memberships
- Admitted to the Maltese Bar, Superior Courts of Malta (2018)
- International Trademark Association
- Malta Chamber of Advocates
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Address
MAMO TCV Advocates
Palazzo Pietro Stiges
103, Strait Street
Valletta, VLT 1436
Malta
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