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Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024 – IP Set of the Year30 September 20248 New Square is delighted to announce that it won Intellectual Property Set of the Year at the Legal 500 UK 2024 Bar Awards, which took place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London on 25th September.  
Cloud Cycle v Verifi [2024] EWHC 2001 (Ch)6 August 2024James Abrahams KC and Edmund Eustace appeared for the Defendants (“Verifi”) in a patent dispute relating to the Claimant’s (“Cloud Cycle’s”) system for monitoring a property of concrete (known as ‘slump’) in a mixing truck, and its alleged infringement of one of Verifi’s patents (“EP689”). Unusually, the validity of EP689 was not in issue, and […]
R2 Semiconductor v Intel [2024] EWHC 1974 (Pat)31 July 2024Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC appeared for the defendants (“Intel”) and Edmund Eustace appeared as junior counsel for the claimant (“R2”) in proceedings concerning a dispute on infringement and validity of an R2 patent for semiconductor technology (“the Patent”). The Patent claimed a form of circuitry for a voltage regulator, which R2 alleged was infringed by processors […]
Panasonic v Xiaomi [2024] EWHC 1733 (Pat)5 July 2024Isabel Jamal appeared as junior counsel for the Claimant (“Panasonic”) in an application for declaratory relief made by the First to Fourth Defendants (“Xiaomi”) in ongoing FRAND proceedings. Xiaomi sought declarations that Panasonic’s FRAND commitment required it to offer Xiaomi an interim licence to various of Panasonic’s patents declared essential to the 3G and 4G […]
Congratulations to Nicholas Harris4 July 2024Chambers is delighted to announce that its pupil, Nicholas Harris, has accepted an offer of tenancy. Nicholas graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a Master’s degree in engineering before converting to law. He will begin practice as a member of chambers in October 2024.
Engineer.AI Global v Appy Pie [2024] EWHC 1430 (IPEC)19 June 2024Engineer.AI Global Ltd provided “no code” app development services. It had a series of registered trade marks including BUILDER and BUILDER.AI in word and in stylised forms. The second defendant Appy Pie LLP supplies “no code” app builders of the drag and drop type. In 2022, Engineer.AI sued the defendants for infringement in respect of […]
easyGroup v Beauty Perfectionists [2024] EWHC 1441 (Ch)13 June 2024James Abrahams KC and Maxwell Keay represented the successful defendants (“Beauty Perfectionists”) in trade mark infringement proceedings brought by the claimant (“easyGroup”), regarding Beauty Perfectionists’ use of versions of the sign “easyCOSMETIC” in relation to its online cosmetics business. easyGroup relied on two marks for the word “EASYJET”, registered for various goods and services including, […]
Samsung v Alexion [2024] EWHC 1407 (Pat)6 June 2024James Whyte appeared for the claimant (“Samsung”) in its successful application to expedite a trial, in which Samsung seeks to revoke a patent owned by the defendant (“Alexion”). The patent, which was granted earlier this year, is said to give Alexion refreshed rights over the antibody drug eculizumab. Eculizumab is an orphan drug which is […]
Supponor v AIM Sport Development [2024] EWCA Civ 39623 April 2024Daniel Alexander KC appeared for the successful respondents (“AIM”) in an appeal arising from a patent trial in January 2023. At trial, Meade J found a patent owned by AIM (“the Patent”) valid and infringed by a system used by the appellant (“Supponor”). The Patent claimed a method for digitally overlaying images onto TV broadcasts, […]
Advanced Cell Diagnostics v Molecular Instruments [2024] EWHC 898 (Pat)23 April 2024Tom Moody-Stuart KC represented the claimants (“ACD”) in patent validity and infringement proceedings brought against the defendants (“MI”). ACD’s patents in suit (“EP572” and “EP439”) claimed a method and a kit, respectively, for performing Fluorescent in situ hybridization (“FISH”) of nucleic acids. FISH is a form of hybridization assay using ‘target probes’ – short strands […]