8 New Square Intellectual Property

Barrister specialising in all areas of IP and media and entertainment. Recent and notable cases include the following. Patents and SPCs: Ensygnia v Shell (QR codes); Optis v Apple (2 trials and 3 appeals; mobile phones); Alcon v Pharmathen (glaucoma treatment); Novartis v Teva (interim injunction application); Promptu v Sky (voice recognition); Ablynx v VHSquared (jurisdiction); Teva v MSD and Teva v Gilead (SPCs relating to treatments for AIDS); Accord v Medac (formulation of methotrexate); Mylan v Gedeon Richter (emergency contraception) and Schutz v Werit (which went to the Supreme Court on the issue of repair). Trade marks and passing off: Lifestyle Equities v Santa Barbara Polo Club (jurisdiction); Land Rover’s Trade Mark Application (for the 3D Defender mark); R v Secretary of State for Health (standardised packaging for tobacco) and Karen Millen v Karen Millen Fashions. Design rights: Chiaro v Mayborn (breast pumps); Rothy’s v Giesswein (shoes); Shnuggle v Munchkin (baby baths). Copyright and database right: Genius Sports v Soft Construct (sports data); 77M v Ordnance Survey (database right in maps); Football Dataco v Stan James and Football Dataco v Sportradar (rights in football data; both referred to the CJEU) and BBC v Eos (Copyright Tribunal). Breach of confidence: Wade v BSkyB (television format); Force India v 1 Malaysia Racing Team (trial and appeal on liability and quantum relating to F1 cars). For a comprehensive CV visit www.8newsquare.co.uk

Called 1996, Middle Temple; Silk 2019; publications include: ‘The Modern Law of Copyright and Designs’.

Italian, French.

Chancery Bar Association, IPBA.

Newnham College, Cambridge (1994 BA Hons Natural Sciences and Law); European University Institute, Florence (1995 MA Comparative, European and International Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1996 BVC).

Cooking, travel.