Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has been hit by a second mass defection in Italy this week, seeing a 15-lawyer team leave to join BonelliErede just days after another group moved to Hogan Lovells. The BonelliErede joiners will strengthen the firm’s risk, compliance and investigations (RCI) group, as well as its IP, privacy and IT team […]
Pharma wars: Hampshire firm takes on Aspirin producer An IP battle has begun between Hampshire-headquartered Aspire Pharma and German behemouth Bayer after the former filed a part 7 ‘patents and registered designs’ claim on Wednesday 7 February. Bayer is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, responsible for products including Aspirin, Claritin and Rennie, […]
A confidential settlement was reached by Norwegian storage robotics company AutoStore Technology last week, just days before its appeal was due to be heard in the Business and Property Courts, The Lawyer can reveal. After losing its UK patents in a 2023 judgment in favour of Ocado – which had been the subject of IP […]
Kirkland & Ellis has lost another partner to Paul Weiss’s burgeoning London office, this time in intellectual property. Partner John Patten is set to move firms and join his former Kirkland colleagues at Paul Weiss. IP specialist Patten has been at Kirkland since 2018 and was promoted to its partnership in 2021. His practice focuses […]
Allen & Overy is set to bulk up its data security and litigation team with new hires from Norton Rose Fulbright. Ffion Flockhart is joining the magic circle firm, The Lawyer has learnt, having co-led Norton Rose’s global data protection, privacy and cybersecurity practice. Flockhart is a lifer at Norton Rose and was given the […]
Bird & Bird is set to defend a life sciences patent dispute in September in what will be the first-ever oral hearing before the brand new Unified Patent Court (UPC). The UPC was created to unify patent litigation across the European Union, meaning cases can be heard in one court instead of individual jurisdictions. The […]
Lewis Silkin has acquired patent and trademark firm Miller Sturt Kenyon (MSK). An 11-strong team including 4 patent attorneys will join the mid-tier firm, with MSK managing director Andy Cloughley and director Matthew Turner joining as partners. Lewis Silkin previously acquires patent firm Ablett & Stebbing in 2019. Lewis Silkin joint managing partner Jo Farmer […]
Bristows is set to open a hub in Dublin this summer to assist its quest to be the first firm through the doors of the new Unified Patent Court (UPC), opening 1 June 2023. The UPC will be a new patent court common to 17 European Union (EU) member states with exclusive jurisdiction over European […]
Quinn is launching an intellectual property litigation practice in London later this year after recruiting partner David Lancaster. Lancaster joins from Pinsent Masons where he has been for over four years and before that, he was a barrister for the earlier part of his career. He has experience in all aspects of contentious intellectual property […]
Bird & Bird client Lidl has won its argument that the Tesco Clubcard logo was a trademark and copyright violation, raising questions over its future viability. A yellow circle embedded on a blue square has been the cornerstone of Lidl’s branding. A similar graphic, albeit differentiated by the text used upon it, has also become […]
Foot Anstey has recruited an intellectual property team from Clarke Willmott to open its first office in the north of England. The Bristol-headquartered firm has taken on IP partner Roy Crozier and four other IP experts, who will be based in the Tootal buildings in Manchester. Crozier has been head of IP at Clarke Willmott […]
After a search spanning several years, Morrison Foerster has added a four-strong intellectual property litigation team in London. The US firm’s London office has hired a team led by Steven James from Brown Rudnick. James, who starts at MoFo’s offices in the Scalpel on Thursday, was head of the IP practice across Brown Rudnick’s UK […]