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8 New Square invite Dr Eleonora Rosati to be a Door Tenant15 March 2016Chambers are delighted that Dr Eleonora Rosati, an Italian Qualified lawyer has accepted their invitation to be a Door Tenant at 8 New Square. Admitted to the Florence Bar, Eleonora is a lecturer in IP at the University of Southampton, a guest lecturer in copyright law at EDHEC Business school (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales […]
Nekoti Limited -and- Univilla Limited t/a Consol [2016] EWHC 556 (Ch)15 March 2016Quentin Cregan (instructed by TLT LLP) acted for the Defendant in its successful application to strike out the Claimant’s particulars of claim with indemnity costs. The Claimant was a software developer who had supplied software to the Defendant. The Claimant issued proceedings in November 2013 wide ranging and extensive damages and/or an account of profits […]
Martin Howe gives the annual lecture to the Asian Patent Attorneys Association11 March 2016 Martin was invited to give the annual lecture to the Singapore Group of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) on recent developments to IP laws in the UK and Europe with comparison to developments in Singapore. His lecture covered the topics of shape, colour and other unconventional trade marks (Nestle v Cadbury in Europe/UK vs […]
8 New Square wins MIP UK IP Set of the Year 201610 March 2016The Managing IP Global Awards ceremony was held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 10th March and 8 New Square were awarded the UK IP Set of The Year. This is the first time that the MIP Global Awards have included a ‘UK IP Set of the Year’.
Tom Moody-Stuart and James Abrahams appointed as QC22 February 20168 New Square are delighted to announce that both Tom Moody-Stuart and James Abrahams have been appointed as Queen’s Counsel.
Actavis UK Ltd and others v Eli Lilly & Company [2016] EWHC 234 (Pat) 12 February 201612 February 2016Richard Meade QC and Isabel Jamal, together with Thomas Raphael QC, successfully represented Actavis in the trial of the issues remitted by the Court of Appeal in Actavis v Lilly [2015] EWCA Civ 555. This action concerns Lilly’s European Patent No. 1 313 508 for the use of pemetrexed disodium, a chemotherapeutic treatment for lung […]
Actavis UK Ltd and others v Eli Lilly & Company [2016] EWHC 234 (Pat) 12 February 201612 February 2016Richard Meade QC and Isabel Jamal, together with Thomas Raphael QC, successfully represented Actavis in the trial of the issues remitted by the Court of Appeal in Actavis v Lilly [2015] EWCA Civ 555. This action concerns Lilly’s European Patent No. 1 313 508 for the use of pemetrexed disodium, a chemotherapeutic treatment for lung […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd & Novo Nordisk A/S1 February 2016Michael Tappin QC, James Whyte and William Duncan appeared at the trial of this claim by Regeneron for infringement of its patent by Kymab’s antibody-producing transgenic mice. The subject-matter was described by the judge, Henry Carr J, as being of great technical complexity. In essence, the patent related to transgenic mice in which variable regions […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd & Novo Nordisk A/S1 February 2016Michael Tappin QC, James Whyte and William Duncan appeared at the trial of this claim by Regeneron for infringement of its patent by Kymab’s antibody-producing transgenic mice. The subject-matter was described by the judge, Henry Carr J, as being of great technical complexity. In essence, the patent related to transgenic mice in which variable regions […]
Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others [2016] EWHC 94 (Pat)29 January 2016Members of chambers appeared in the second of five technical trials (Trial B) in this mobile telecommunications patent action. Trial B involved two patents, EP 2 119 287 and EP 2 485 514, both of which concerned a scheme relating to the updating of neighbour cell lists. Deciding the case in favour of Huawei and […]