Barrister (KC) specialising in all aspects of intellectual property, media and entertainment, and information technology. IP areas include patents, trade marks, copyright, passing off, confidential information, registered and unregistered designs, M&E areas include broadcasting (terrestrial and satellite), publishing, performers' rights, moral rights. IT specialisms include internet law, database rights, telecommunications. Also specialises in jurisdiction disputes relating to all of the above. Recent cases include SkyKick v. Sky (trade marks and bad faith); Unwired Planet v. Huawei (telecoms patents; FRAND); Conversant v. Huawei & ZTE (telecoms patents; FRAND; jurisdiction); Regeneron v. Kymab (transgenic mouse patent); Actavis v. ICOS (pharmaceutical patent); Warner Lambert v. Generics & Actavis (second medical use patent); and Cartier v. BskyB (trade mark infringement over the Internet; injunction against ISPs). For comprehensive CV visit chambers website at www.8newsquare.co.uk

Called 1993, Gray’s Inn. Co-author Modern Law of Copyright 3rd-5th Ed.

Patent Bar Association (PBA); Chancery Bar Association.

Born 1969. Educated at Seaford Head Comprehensive; Kings College, Cambridge (1991 BA Physics and Theoretical Physics - 1st Class); College of Law 1992 (Common Professional Exam with distinction); ICSL 1993 (Bar Vocational Course). Called 1993, Appointed QC 2012.