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Geoffrey Pritchard

Geoffrey Pritchard

Position

Geoffrey is a highly regarded senior junior with a practice covering all aspects of intellectual property and information technology. His practice is split 50:50 between high-tech cases (e.g. patents, confidential information and technically related contracts) and "soft" IP cases (e.g. trade marks, passing-off, copyright and designs). Geoffrey appears in the Court of Appeal, High Court/Patents Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, the General Court, the patent offices, arbitrations and mediations. In recent years he has often appeared without a leader and has extensive experience of conducting trials, cross-examination (particularly of expert witnesses) and applications for urgent interim relief.

Career

Called 1998, Middle Temple. Qualified Mediator, 2018 appointed Recorder (Civil & Criminal).

Memberships

IP Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association.

Education

Leicester Grammar School; Bristol University (1992 BSc 1st class Physics); Cambridge University (PhD, Shell Scholarship in Geophysics); De Montfort University (1997 CPE, distinction); ISCL (Queen Mother Scholar, Middle Temple).

Mentions

London Bar

Intellectual property

LEADING JUNIORS2
Geoffrey Pritchard – Three New Square ‘Geoffrey is a deep thinker and believable in front of a judge. He is one of the most hardworking juniors and he gets his points across because of a fundamental honesty of demeanour.’