Antony Watson QC Simon Thorley QC Richard Miller QC Guy Burkill QC Andrew Waugh QC Denise McFarland Colin Birss QC Justin Turner QC Douglas Campbell Tom Mitcheson Tom Hinchliffe Geoffrey Pritchard Helyn Mensah Dominic Hughes Miles Copeland Joe Delaney
		Tom Mitcheson Called to the Bar 1996 "Intellectual Property Junior of the Year", Chambers Bar Awards 2009 Appointments Standing Counsel to the Comptroller General for Patents Designs and Trade Marks 2009- Practice Area Tom has experience in all types of contentious intellectual property work including patents, trademarks, copyright, design right, registered designs, passing off and confidential information. He has been involved in a wide variety of interim applications and trials in the High Court and Court of Appeal (both with & without a leader) and in the House of Lords. He also makes regular appearances in the UK Patent Office & Trade Marks Registry and at the European Patent Office (both Opposition Division and Board of Appeal level). Recent and Notable Cases include: • GSK v Abbott (patent licence dispute) • L'Oreal v eBay (trademark dispute) • Lundbeck v Teva (House of Lords, scope of sufficiency) • CoreValve v Edwards (patent action, heart valve technology) • Alza v Sandoz (patent action, skin patch formulation) • Sandoz v Napp (patent action, controlled release formulation) • Hospira v Eli Lilly (anti-suit injunction, anti-cancer drug) • GSK v Sanofi (vaccine patent, EPO Opposition & Appeal) • Leo v Sandoz (interim injunction, patent action) • Knorr-Bremse v Haldex [2008] FSR 30 (conflict of laws) • UK Channel Management v E! Entertainment [2008] FSR 5 (survey evidence in trademark dispute) • Luxim v Ceravision [2007] RPC 33 (patent entitlement dispute) • Pozzoli v BDMO [2007] FSR 37 (patent action, CA) • USP v LGH [2006] FSR 6 (damages inquiry in copyright action, CA) • Mayne v Debiopharm [2006] FSR 37 (patent action - platinum based anti-cancer drug) • Ultraframe v Eurocell [2005] RPC 7 & 36 (patent & design right, CA) • GSK v. Apotex [2003] FSR 30, [2005] FSR 44 [2007] Ch 71 (damages inquiry on cross undertaking in patent action, CA) • Agilent v Waters (damages inquiry in patent action) • Dyson v Strutt (confidential information in employment dispute) • Mayne v Teva (patent infringement - pharmaceutical formulation) • NIC’s Licence of Right [2005] RPC 1 (design right) • Sir Robert McAlpine v Alfred McAlpine [2004] RPC 36 (passing off) • Buchanan v Alba [2004] RPC 34 (improvements clause, HL) • Rockwater v Coflexip [2004] RPC 46 (patent infringement, CA) • THQ/JAKKS v World Wildlife Fund [2004] FSR 10 (contractual dispute) • Arsenal v Reed [2003] RPC 9 & 39 (trademark - ECJ reference & CA) • Collag v. Merck [2003] FSR 13 (confidential information) • Coca-Cola v. Mabe (trademark & passing off) [2002] FSR 47 • Apple Computer’s Design Application [2002] FSR 8 • 3M v Rennicks Ltd [2000] FSR 727 (stay pending EPO proceedings) • Magic Ball Trade Mark [2000] RPC 439 (non-use) • Kimberly-Clark v Procter & Gamble [2000] RPC 422 CA • Norowzian v Arks [2000] FSR 363 (copyright in Guinness television advert, CA) Education: • Eton College. • Baring Foundation Scholarship 1990-1991. Spent 9 months living with Nobel Prize-winner Dr James Watson and working as a research assistant at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, USA. • Trinity College, Cambridge (1994 MA First Class Hons Natural Sciences). • City University (1994 Diploma in Law CPE - Distinction). • Inns of Court School of Law & Major Scholar, Inner Temple (1996) Publications: • Wang P-C, Vancura A, Mitcheson TGM, and Kuret J (1992), “Two genes in Saccaromyces cerevisiae Encode a Membrane-Bound Form of Casein Kinase-1”, Molecular Biology of the Cell 3, 275-286 • Contributor to “Terrell on the Law of Patents” (16th edition 2006). Professional Memberships: Intellectual Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Bar European Group.