Nikeh M. C. Jemmott, Founder & Partner
Nikeh is an Attorney-at-Law with nearly 20 years of experience in the legal industry. She specialises in the area of intellectual property (IP) focusing on IP risk management; domestic and global IP strategy; trade mark registration and maintenance; copyright software, software development and maintenance; copyright and artificial intelligence (AI); copyright in the creative sector, namely fashion design, graphic design, photography, marketing materials, product labelling and packaging, other forms of artistic works, films, and literary works; patents; and trade secret protection through non-disclosure agreements, policies, access controls, and response plans.
Nikeh has partnered with and advised clients on the protection and commercialisation of their IP rights and assets in international markets and regions, including the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), the European Union, and under the Madrid Protocol and the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
She has advised and represented clients in IP-related matters for nearly 15 years and collaborated on multi-jurisdictional teams in cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. In addition, she has prepared and reviewed complex contracts to ensure clients’ IP rights and ownership were secured, documented, and registered, where available.
Aside from IP, Nikeh's practice spans legal advice, support, and representation in business/corporate formation, preparation of share certificates, statutory registers, filing annual returns, and other corporate services post-formation, employment contracts, unfair dismissal and discrimination litigation, real estate acquisition and leasing, mortgages, Wills, probate, and succession matters. She adopts an interdisciplinary, pragmatic, and business-minded approach, considering, where applicable, any comparative and foreign law factors.
She possesses extensive law firm and in-house counsel experience, having worked as an Associate Attorney-at-Law with one of Barbados’ leading and oldest law firms and a multinational company in the ready-to-drinks and spirits industry.
Throughout her career, Nikeh has cultivated strong professional relationships and a vast network of contacts across the Caribbean, US, Canada, UK, and Ireland.
Nikeh muses that if she were not an Attorney-at-Law, she might have been a graphic artist or architect. In her spare time, she enjoys the beach and lives vicariously through free divers.
Education:
· BA - History & Education (UWI, 2005)
· LLB (UWI, 2010)
· LEC (Hugh Wooding Law School, 2012)
· PGDip., Comparative & Foreign Law (Queen Mary UOL, 2021)
· LLM, International Intellectual Property Law (Queen Mary UOL, 2021)
Admissions:
Barbados (2012)