Alice Hart

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Information Technology and related commercial disputes; patents, SPCs, trademarks, passing off, copyright, designs, confidential information, contractual disputes involving intellectual property or technical subject matter.

Recent cases include: Pfizer & BioNTech v Moderna, Pfizer & BioNTech v CureVac (patents, COVID-19, mRNA vaccines); Siemens v GE (patents, wind turbines); Sandoz v BMS (patent/SPC, apixaban); Eli Lilly v Teva (patent, pemetrexed, damages under settlement agreement); Lufthansa v Astronics, Panasonic & Safran (patent, in-seat power sockets, account of profits); Geofabrics v Fiberweb (patent, railway geocomposites, damages inquiry); NHS England, Wales & NI v Warner-Lambert (second medical use patent, pregabalin, damages inquiry, cross-undertakings); Sandoz, Teva & ors v Bayer (patent, rivaroxaban); Illumina v MGI (patents, DNA sequencing); NL Holding v GMA (passing off, copyright infringement, Formula 1, sports personality), Black Sheep v Conilon (trade marks, passing off, beer); Glaxo v Glenmark and Celon (trade marks, 3D shape, inhalers).

Career

Pupillage 2018-2019, Three New Square; Call to the Bar 2018, Inner Temple; BPTC / GDL, City, University of London 2016-2018; MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (First Class Hons), University of Oxford 2011-2016.

Publications

Contributing author to Terrell on the Law of Patents (2020-present); Member of the Attorney General’s Civil Panel Counsel Junior Junior Scheme (2021-present); Bar Pro Bono Unit (Advocate) panel member (2022-present); editor of the IP sections of the White Book (2022-present)