Professional background
Before joining Fieldfisher I spent 14 years as an intellectual property lawyer in the in-house legal team at Sky UK Ltd, having previously worked at Bird & Bird, Britvic Soft Drinks and Simmons & Simmons. I have experience across the range of IP matters: trade marks, designs, copyright, patents, database rights, domain names and confidential information, whether contentious, non-contentious or transactional. I have particular expertise in trade marks.
I have been involved with IP litigation at all levels from the Supreme Court to the IPEC, as well as trade mark registry disputes in the UK and EU.
I job share the IP PSL role with Rebecca Pakenham-Walsh.
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Battle Over Pink: CJEU clarifies overlap of bad faith and other trade mark invalidity grounds
12.08.2025
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its preliminary ruling in CeramTec v Coorstek Bioceramics on 19 June 2025, giving guidance on the overlap of bad faith and the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result with respect to EU trade marks.
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