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Accord Healthcare v Regents of the University of California [2024] EWHC 2524 (Pat)8 October 2024Justin Turner KC appeared for the Claimants and Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC appeared for the Defendants in this action to revoke the patent and invalidate the SPC owned by the First Defendant and exclusively licensed to the Second Defendant. The patent in suit, EP 196, claimed the compound enzalutamide for the treatment of hormone refractory prostate […]
Pfizer v Glaxosmithkline Biologicals [2024] EWHC 2523 (Pat) 7 October 2024Tom Moody-Stuart KC appeared for the Claimant (Pfizer) and Dr Justin Turner KC appeared for the Defendant (GSK) in an action concerning vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The proceedings concerned two GSK patents – EP 258 and EP 710. Both of these related to a vaccine for RSV. Pfizer brought these proceedings in an […]
New Tenant Nicholas Harris2 October 2024Chambers is delighted to welcome Nicholas Harris as its newest tenant, after successfully completing pupillage.  Nicholas is developing a practice across the full breadth of IP law including patents, trade marks, copyright, design rights, confidential information and related contractual and jurisdictional disputes.  His profile can be viewed here.
Motorola Mobility v Ericsson [2024] EWCA Civ 110030 September 2024Michael Tappin KC appeared for the successful defendants (“Ericsson”) on an appeal by the claimants (“Lenovo”) against an order dismissing its application for an interim injunction to restrain Ericsson from doing acts which Lenovo alleged infringed one of its standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) until final judgment in the claim. Lenovo’s application arose out of a wider […]
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.  
Lunak Heavy Industries v Tyburn Film Productions [2024] EWHC 2312 (Ch)9 September 2024Jonathan Hill appeared for the Appellants (“Lunak” and “Lucasfilm”), and Tom Moody-Stuart KC and Joshua Marshall appeared for the Respondent (“Tyburn”) in this appeal against the order of Master Kaye (“the Master”) by which she rejected the Appellants’ application for the claim made against them in unjust enrichment to be summarily dismissed or alternatively struck […]
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.