Overview

Three New Square chambers have practised in intellectual property law in the United Kingdom for over sixty years. Chambers currently comprises fifteen tenants, six of whom practise as Queen’s Counsel.

The core of the work undertaken in chambers involves patents, registered trade marks, passing off, copyright, registered designs, design rights, confidential information and trade secrets. In addition, work carried out in chambers can involve information technology, computer contracts, media and entertainment law, scientifically complex litigation, arbitration, franchising, plant breeders rights, performing rights, semi-conductor topography rights, moral rights, and related areas of European and UK competition law.

Members of chambers are very experienced in dealing with technical subject matter. Currently members of chambers have, between them, undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in chemistry, engineering, physics, veterinary medicine, neuroscience, immunology, geophysics and psychology.

Chambers and its members are regularly recommended as leaders in the field of Intellectual Property and Information Technology law in leading legal directories, including Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Chambers was named Intellectual Property/Information Technology set of the year for 2010.