Chris Aikens

Practice Areas

Chris has a diverse practice covering all areas of intellectual property law and commercial disputes with an IP or technical element. His recent work has included patent cases relating to both treatments for glaucoma and stairlifts, a number of design claims in the fashion industry, a claim for international copyright infringement against an airline and defending a number of claims for trade mark and passing off brought by easyGroup. He is also currently acting as lead counsel in an LCIA arbitration concerning video games.

Chris appears regularly as sole counsel in the High Court, UK IPO and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. He has also appeared as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal, the General Court of the European Union, the European Patent Office and the Company Names Tribunal and as junior counsel in the UK Supreme Court. In the summer of 2018, Chris also acted as junior counsel in a 13-day breach of contract trial in the Commercial Court.

Chris was nominated for the 2021 Chambers and Partners IP/IT Junior of the Year award.