About

I provide strategic and commercial advice to businesses to help protect their brands and advise on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. With nearly 10 years experience as an IP litigator, my work focusses on the protection, exploitation and enforcement of the full range of IP rights, including trade marks, patents, copyright, moral rights, designs and confidential information.

I work with clients across the creative industries and with businesses where IP is their key asset to attain, maintain and enforce. Industry specialist knowledge across the creative sectors, retail, sports, technology, publishing and pharmaceutical companies allows me to work closely with clients' legal and business stakeholders to provide tailored, commercial advice.

Alongside IP, I have a passion for diversity in the workforce, and strive to ensure that Lewis Silkin has an inclusive culture that provides equality of opportunity. I am proud to lead the Gender Group of the Diversity, Equity and and Inclusion Board and sit on the DE&I Executive Committee. I have spoken at a number of external roundtable events on gender diversity. I was a Finalist in the Under-35 Lawyer of the Year category in the First 100 Years Inspirational Women In Law Awards 2019 and shortlisted as a Rising Star (Private Practice) at the Women in Law Awards 2020.

I am a member of the international Licensing Executive Society (LES), its Young Members Committee Member and of IPSoc, the society for junior IP practitioners in the UK.

I completed the University of Oxford Diploma in Intellectual Property and Practice in 2019, receiving a Distinction

Experience

IP disputes

  • Advising clients at all stages of the litigation lifecycle on UK and cross-border disputes, from pre-action correspondence rights through to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, High Court and Court of Appeal
  • Assisting clients in seeking commercial settlements at all stages of a claim, including through alternative dispute resolution I regularly draft and negotiate settlement and coexistence agreements
  • Advising on online enforcement issues such as domain name and website infringements, and have carried out successful Nominet complaints and UDRP/URS applications to obtain transfer of infringing domain names
  • Examples of recent work include: advising an AI-powered finance business on trade mark infringement; advising national supermarket on trade mark dispute stemming from its new product range; advising medical device company on a patent infringement dispute; advising creative agency on use of its copyright protected images

Intellectual property

  • Advising clients on IP issues within their business such as advertising campaigns, product or brand launches, providing clearance and strategic advice to avoid infringement issues This includes advise on licence options such as through the NLA
  • Working with our trade mark attorney team to advise on the prosecution of trade marks and management of large portfolios, often with an international aspect, and with an eye on overall protection
  • Supporting our attorneys with running opposition and invalidity actions in the UK Intellectual Property Office and EU Intellectual Property Office regimes

Notable cases

  • Combe International LLC and Combe International Limited v Dr August Wolff GMBH & Co KG Arzneimittel and Acdoco Limited [2021] EWHC 3347 (Ch) and [2022] EWCA Civ 1562 – acting for Dr Wolff and Acdoco in the High Court and Court of Appeal, defending a claim for trade mark infringement and passing off, and a counterclaim for invalidity and declaration of non-infringement Now the leading case for statutory acquiescence Also advised on simultaneous EUIPO and UKIPO proceedings between the parties
  • Soluble Technologies Group LLC v Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd (2022) – acting for Britvic in a patent infringement dispute in the IPEC and counterclaim for invalidity, which we successfully settled prior to exchange of expert evidence
  • Ecotricity Group Limited v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (2020) – acting for Ecotricity in a trade mark infringement and passing off dispute, which we successfully settled immediately prior to trial
  • Student Union Lettings Limited v Essex Student Lets Limited [2018] EWHC 419 (IPEC) – acting for Essex Student Lets defending proceedings against them for trade mark infringement and passing off in the IPEC
  • Coreix Limited v Coretx Holdings Plc and others [2017] EWHC 1695 (IPEC) – acting for Coretx defending proceedings against them for trade mark infringement and passing off in the IPEC

Services

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