Called to the Bar 2010

Practice Area 
Intellectual Property, including patents, trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs and confidential information

Notable and Recent Cases

Trade Marks & Passing Off
• Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) v Philip Lee (t/a Cropton Brewery) [2011] EWHC 1879 (Ch) – beer trade marks (instructed on behalf of the Claimant, led by Denise McFarland)
• Glaxo Group v Coca-Cola – application for interim injunction, settled at court (as a pupil, assisting Simon Malynicz)
• Yell v Giboin [2011] EWPCC 9 – internet business directories (as a pupil, assisting Denise McFarland)
• Datacard v Eagle [2011] EWHC 244 (Pat) – generic printer ribbons (as a pupil, assisting Tom Hinchliffe and Joe Delany)
• Various Trade Marks Registry hearings, including oppositions to the marks “Ambrosia Feel Good Puds”, “Rebo”, “Multisys” and the colour purple (as a pupil, assisting Tom Hinchliffe, Denise McFarland and Simon Malynicz)

Patents 
• Halliburton Energy Services Inc’s Patents – Appeal to High Court from the Comptroller-General of Patents relating to the mental act and computer program exclusions (as a pupil, assisting Tom Mitcheson)
• Warner-Lambert v Teva [2011] EWHC 1691 (Pat) ­– application for an interim injunction (as a pupil, assisting Tom Mitcheson)
• Medimmune v Novartis [2011] EWHC (Pat) – biotechnology (as a pupil, assisting Richard Meade QC, Tom Mitcheson and James Whyte)
• Schütz v Werit [2011] EWCA – appeal addressing the scope of the term “making” in the Patents Act (as a pupil, assisting Simon Thorley QC and Tom Mitcheson)
• Opposition to European Patent No. 1,601,359 (“Liquid pharmaceutical formulations of palonosetron”) – European Patent Office hearing (as a pupil, assisting Tom Mitcheson)
• Abbott v Medinol [2010] EWHC (Pat) – coronary stents (as a pupil, assisting Anthony Watson QC and Tom Hinchliffe)

Copyright
• Instructed in, and worked as a pupil on, a number of on-going copyright cases including infringement actions and licensing disputes.

Design Right
• Albert v Nampak [2011] EWPCC 15 – sandwich wrap packaging (as a pupil, assisting Joe Delany)

Confidential Information
• Convatec v Smith & Nephew – wound dressings (as a pupil and later instructed, assisting Piers Acland QC and Geoffrey Pritchard)