Kirkland & Ellis has filed a second claim against online supermarket and retailer Ocado on behalf of its client AutoStore. In October, AutoStore instructed the US firm as it alleged Ocado unlawfully sold its technology – with parallel claims filed in the UK and US. This claim relates to patents Ocado filed in 2014, with […]
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a claim on behalf of AutoStore against online grocery giant Ocado, alleging that it unlawfully sold its technology. AutoStore is suing Ocado in parallel claims in the UK and US over the alleged breach, filing papers at the High Court in London and the International Trade Commission in the US. […]
The chair of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP)’s global data privacy and security practice has joined Greenberg Traurig in the US, alongside a partner and an associate in his team. The duo includes Colorado-based partner David Zetoony, who will join Greenberg’s Denver office and Chicago-based partner Jena Valdetero, who will keep practising in the same […]
Stephenson Harwood has pulled of its second lateral hire in a matter of weeks, this time bringing in an IP partner from Bird & Bird. The firm has hired partner Tim Harris, who spent over 13 years at its UK rival. The lawyer, who joined Bird & Bird as an associate in 2007 and became […]
Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE have lost out in a major Supreme Court decision over the infringement of patents and how corporates enter into global licensing arrangements. Huawei was appealing against previous decisions made in favour of Conversant and Unwired Planet. In one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2019, Huawei and ZTE […]
Pinsent Masons’ cyber head has left the firm, joining Clyde & Co alongside an associate from his team. Ian Birdsey joins Clydes in London after eight years at Pinsent Masons and was made partner in 2016. Seaton Gordon, who is an associate in Birdsey’s team, is also joining Clydes. Birdsey advises corporate, SME and insurer […]
Another IP partner has left Cooley in the wake of a nine-lawyer exodus at the end of June. IP partner Charlie Winckworth, who joined Cooley at the start of last year from Hogan Lovells, has left the firm. He leaves one week after Cooley lost fellow IP partner Nick Bolter, four associates, a paralegal, and three […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has hired a team of nine from Cooley’s London office, in a move intended to boost its IP capabilities. The US firm has taken on a group led by IP partner Nick Bolter, who has been with Cooley since its London launch. He joins alongside four associates, a paralegal, and three […]
Since the coronavirus pandemic started, data privacy work has been non-stop. But for the experts working in this area, it is the culmination of a process that has been long in the making.
“Why have I not walked the dog every day at 6.30am since we’ve had her? It is a beautiful time in the morning,” says Valerie Kenyon, London partner and co-head of Hogan Lovell’s global products law practice. The Hogan Lovells lifer set off on a three-week business trip in February not expecting to come back […]
Manchester United has brought in Allen & Overy as it sues the makers of the Football Manager series for infringing its trademark by using the club’s name extensively in the game. The Premier League club, which announced this week that it had made a £3.3m financial loss in the third quarter, has taken legal action […]
Specialist courts will be introduced this year to raise standards of professionalism in the judiciary and provide more consistent decisions