Iona Berkeley

Practice Areas

Barrister specialising in all areas of intellectual property law, including trade marks, passing off, copyright, database rights, registered and unregistered design rights, patents, confidential information, and related areas, such as IP related contractual disputes (in particular international arbitrations) and media and entertainment. Cases include the Glaxo v Sandoz litigation (passing off, trade marks, joint tortfeasance, pharmaceuticals), Speciality European Pharma v Doncaster Pharmaceuticals (Pharmaceutical parallel importation/trade mark infringement); DKH Retail v H Young Operations (UK Design Right and Community Design); Coward v Phaestos (Copyright infringement/ownership issues); Whirlpool Corp. v Kenwood (Trade Marks); EPI Environmental Technologies v Symphony (Confidential Information, contract); Football Association Premier League v Panini (Copyright); Kirin-Amgen Inc. v TKT and Roche (Patents).

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Career

Trinity College, Oxford (BA Biological Sciences, MA (Oxon)); City University (Dip Law); Inns of Court School of Law. Called 1999, Middle Temple.

Professional Memberships

Intellectual Property Bar Association and Chancery Bar Association.

Publications

Iona Berkeley is co-author of Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names 17th Ed and recent previous editions and Laddie Prescott and Vitoria on the Modern Law of Copyright and Designs (5th Ed) and recent previous editions.