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Thomas Mitcheson KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 1 : Intellectual Property
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About
Provided by Thomas Mitcheson KC
Practice Areas
All aspects of intellectual property law, including regular EPO, CJEU and Supreme Court appearances. Cases include Arsenal v Reed (trademark, CJEU), Pozzoli v BDMO (mechanical patent, CA), Lundbeck v Teva (patent sufficiency, HL), L'Oreal v eBay (trademark, CJEU), Medeva's Patent (SPC, CJEU), Schutz v Werit (definition of "making", SC), Lilly v HGS (industrial applicability, SC; SPC, CJEU), Cadbury v Nestlé (3D trademark, CJEU), Hospira v Genentech (anti-HER2 antibody, CA), Lush v Amazon (trademark, online trading), Krka v AZ (damages enquiry), ISCC (patentability of stem cells, CJEU), Actavis v Lilly (equivalence, SC), Gilead v Teva (SPC, CJEU), Warner-Lambert v Actavis (plausibility, SC), Actavis v Icos (obviousness, SC), Lilly v Genentech (antibody technology), Sandoz v Janssen/Searle (SPC, CJEU), IPCom v Vodafone (Crown Use, CA), Fibrogen v Akebia (plausibility/undue burden, CA), Anan Kasei v Neo (damages enquiry), Astellas v Teva.
Career
Internship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 1990-91. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1991-94, First Class Hons Natural Sciences. City University (Dip-Law), 1995 (Distinction). Called to the Bar 1996. Standing Counsel to the Comptroller General for Patents Designs and Trade Marks 2009-2014. KC 2014. Appointed Person to hear trade mark appeals 2016-. Called to the Irish Bar, 2021.
Publications
'Two Genes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Encode a Membrane Bound Form of Casein Kinase-1' Wang, Vancura, Mitcheson and Kuret (1992). Terrell on the Law of Patents 19th Edition (2020).
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